"As an individual doing a podcast, you don't get even remotely rich. It's not something to do for money."

"Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings."

"I have gone to many theaters where it is so unpleasant with the commercials before the movie, the volume, and the disrespect of the filmgoers. So I understand people not wanting to go to the theater."

"The only thing that I demand of the audience is that they listen to what I'm saying. Other than that, they owe me nothing. They don't owe me a thing."

"I was certain I was going to do something in sports."

"I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem."

"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

"But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that."