We live in a culture where it's just delicious to shame and blame. We have what I call sometimes a "smugtocracy."

Over half of people who are working now and over 50 have nothing for retirement savings. They will only have Social Security to rely on.

...each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")

I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me. And I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill 'em.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

When we open ourselves you yourself to me and I myself to you, when we submerge you into me and I into you when we vanish into me you and into you I Then am I me and you are you.

Comedy is very difficult. I love it because when you do it right, its the best feeling in the world.

I don't believe in proper cinema; it doesn't have the strength of television. People having to go out to the cinema is really archaic. I'd much rather sit at home.

I know if someone is coming from my right side. I could feel it.

A small step in a good direction.

My greatest work comes in the community.

After Westlife, I was in a scared place, you know; you've three children, and I worry about providing for them, and I had no guarantees going forward about the future.