I think it's safe to say that if you talk to anybody in Ireland, they'll have a passing knowledge of the guitar. It was something that I couldn't get away from when I was younger: guitars played in shops and parties, just everywhere.
You know you're on stage being the life of the party and trying to get laughs, and then, in a lot of ways, you don't have anything to give once you give it to the people.
Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.
That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.
We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.
All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to.
People were hanging out in these places, and just like at cocktail parties, they needed something to do together. I thought, 'How can we fit games into someone's life?'
I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
I'm always dancing in my kitchen. And I love to sing. I've always sung. My father was a lovely singer. Always sang Jim Reeves at parties.
I love the English way, which is not as capitalistic as it is in America. People don't talk about work and money. They talk about interesting things at dinner parties.
Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?
While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.
Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions.
My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.
The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.
When I go to parties, there's a moment when I think, 'I really don't belong here.'
Any party that writes off 25, 30, 35 percent of the American people is not going to be a winner.
If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.
The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.
The GOP should be the GSP: the Grand Solutions Party. It should be about solutions, not talking points.
It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.
