And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

Everything I have ever wanted to be, every dream, every desire is reflected in your eyes.

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.

Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith.

I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.

I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.

Culture is something that we all share and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

If the eternal King started in Bethlehem, so will anyone who follows Him.

He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search.

How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.

There are no signposts in the sea.