I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.

I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff.

To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're not afraid, they're adventurous.

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

Somebody once said that the Irish derived the greatest benefit from the English language. They court it like a beautiful woman. They make it bray with donkey laughter, they fling it at the sky like paint pots full of rainbow colors.

I would like to do away with all kind of - all weapons. A dream - totally. Including the bow an arrow.