Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.

The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.

My parents were sixty years married.

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.

When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, the - Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore, although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.

Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.