I'm an alcoholic, recovering. And I used to smoke cigarettes, and I was a philanderer and I, wouldn't call myself good.

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

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

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 stay in the present, so I don't know about the future.

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

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.