There is a difference between being self-interested and being selfish. I will never be selfish.
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front of the mirror and being silly, then suddenly I started making songs.
I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses up in the public square and things like that. I don't fret about that at all; I'm quite happy about that.
Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!
I've never read anything set in Belfast that doesn't involve the Troubles or something senseless over a flag.
I never think about my style but just try and make the pictures look believable.
I have high expectations of myself. I always have, always will. That will never waver. I always believe in my talent - always have.
I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and I have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.
I've never dropped anyone I believed in.
As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.
There was a time when I'd resigned myself to never having my own family, so to fall pregnant with Belle was overwhelming.
My father, he wouldn't be belligerent or violent. It was never that way.
Songs that aren't even remotely connected to Christmas are now officially canonized Christmas tunes. 'Frosty the Snowman,' 'Jingle Bells' and 'Winter Wonderland' never mention anything religious but are still notches in Christmas' belt of musical dominance.
A teenage foot that never tapped to 'Heartbreak Hotel' in the '50s probably belonged to a hopeless grind.
Even when I went to the Lion's Head in the Village, where all you journalists would hang out, I was always peripheral. I was never really part of anything except the classroom. That's where I belonged.
I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.
I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.
Man, wear your seat belts. That's all I can tell everybody. You never know.
