“We’ve never written a song and thought ‘oh it’d be great if in this part this happened in the audience’.”

Well my wife and I just had a baby ourselves and it makes it harder to be on the road.

It’s time for Americans to stop worrying about Kim Kardashian and figure out how we’re gonna save our kids.

Big pharma has a strangle hold on the politicians. They’re stepping over the corpses of the children of America to cash their checks.

I don’t think you ever write a song with any intention except the song’s about such and such per say.

It isn’t for everybody and it can burn people out, and that’s what’s happened in the past.

We’ve just kept the ship running y’know what I mean? You change engineers from time to time and as long as everybody coming aboard knows what direction the ship is, everything’s alright.

We’re all fortunate to be able to be doing this for a living, so we’re just grateful to be here and we just do what we do and we let the people decide.

I’m not one for being too profound, but I will say this. If you wanna have a good time.

if you wanna drink a little bit y’know get your sing-a-long on, come and see the Dropkick Murphys and have a good time.

We just do what we do, we’re grateful every night when there’s people in front of the stage and singing our songs back at us.

After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience.

When you’re doing stand-up, you achieve an intimacy with the audience you can’t get on TV. There’s not a better feeling in the entire world then when you look out and see the audience is identifying with you.

I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.

Maybe the actors that used to turn down William Goldman’s scripts – where he wanted them to stretch and grow, and he was mad at ’em, and said, “Why won’t they be a real actor?” – maybe they just knew their audience. It’s too bad.

Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn’t have an audience in mind, just the artist’s expression.

Finally, it is the communicating link between the screen and the audience, reaching out and enveloping all into one single experience.

The American audience, having been exposed to a narrowing range of ideas over the decades, often assumes that what they see and hear in the major media is all there is.

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.