Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.

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

The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.

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.

The word is a sound of some sort and that's where the energy comes from.

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.

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