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

I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?

It's one day at a time, that's all there is to it, and so I don't have to worry about it. All I do is, okay, I do not have to drink. And if I feel like it, I postpone it for ten minutes, and that way I find something else to do in the meantime.

I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.

Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in.

They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.

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.