I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist.

I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican.

Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.

I'm not a vitiligo spokesperson just because I have vitiligo.