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

I failed everything in school. I left when I was 13 because I had no comprehension of what the hell they were talking about up there at the blackboard. I must have that ADD thing. But, listening to people I thought, that's wonderful to be able to tell a story.

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

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 was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.

To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.

I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.