I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.
Peace cannot be built on exclusion. That has been the price of the past 30 years.
I was leaving the Belfast court, where I had been called to answer a very flimsy charge, later dismissed. You're relatively safe in such areas in the Irish community, but to go to downtown Belfast for me is dangerous. My appearance in court had been well advertised by the police. I think it was too much of a coincidence that the people who shot me were just passing by.
You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened.
The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.
But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example.
Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.
Give me an hour and I'll make a lifetime out of it.
I do enjoy the puzzle-solving aspect of making a movie.
It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.
Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.