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"The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name."

"If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone."

"But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose."

"The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday."

"The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them."

"The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it."
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"My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live."

"It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place."

"I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time."

"When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church."

"It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas."

"Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from."
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