I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you.

At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.

There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.