There were a few people who got jobs in Limerick, a big barrel on wheels, and it was a barrel that went back and forth, and a shovel and a broom. So, they went around shoveling the horseshit into this barrel. So, you got that job when you were around 15, and then you got to retire at the age of 65, with a pension. A small pension. So that would be 50 years of shoveling horseshit. And I was advised very seriously that I should get that job.

Do whatever you want because that's not what you are. That's what you do for the moment.

I had great faith that perhaps this man Obama would do something, but he is, we're all in the grip of big money.

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

When an English man speaks well, for example now, and this is another way of putting us down, they say he's "eloquent" you see. "Oh, eloquent chap they are!" An Irish person speak well, they say, "Ah, you have the gift of the gab." "Ah, you kissed the blarney stone." You see, all of this putting us down.

I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.

Whenever I'm broadcasting, I like it. When I'm broadcasting I can't wait to hear what I say.