I'm A Huge Fan Of Michael Hirst,

I Don't Know Why I Don't Watch The Oscars. It's Not Bitterness Or Anything; It Just Seems Weird.

My Mom, She's From Ireland, Coached Tennis In Nigeria When She Was A Missionary And Turned Me On To It When I Was Young.

You Can Judge A Country By The Way It Treats Its Prisoners, And You Can Always Judge A Show By The Way It Treats People Coming On To Do These Guest Shots.

There's A Certain Kind Of Existential Freedom That Comes To People Who Realize That All The Things That They Hold Onto And That They Think Define Them, Once They're Gone, There's This New Freedom To Determine The Way You're Going To Live Your Life.

The Desert Feels Irish In A Way - Lonely And Barren. If Someone Said, 'think Of A Happy Place For You,' I'd Say A Glacial Plane Near The South Pole, The Wind Howling, Nobody In Sight, A Shack With A Pot-belly Stove And Some Tea.