The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

I'm a big old romantic.

I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.