I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.

I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

Wrestling used to be interesting. There was a bit of sham involved, of course, but there was some real wrestling involved. They're just characters now. It's unrecognizable. There's no fighting in American bloody wrestling. They just yell at each other and jump around like overweight ballet dancers.

There have been many happy days and many unhappy ones in my life, but the most important was the day I met my missus, who is sometimes estranged and sometimes not. She got me off smack - although that's not the main reason it's the happiest moment.

Petitions are ridiculous.

Irish music is guts, balls and feet music, yeah? It's frenetic dance music, yeah? Or it's impossibly sad like slow music, yeah? Yeah? And it also handles all sorts of subjects, from rebel songs to comical songs about sex, you know what I mean, yeah? Which I don't think people realize how much innuendo there is in Irish music.