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

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.

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.

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

There is such a hype and a big build up to me, and it’s very hard to meet those expectations. That’s been a big stress in my life.

Travelling so much, sometimes my luggage goes astray. But I can get the right stuff sent to me overnight by a special shipper. No big deal.

A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes.

[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.

The issues in America are so big, and the problems are enormously complicated. But I am incredibly confident in Donald Trump to be able to execute on his promise to the people who elected him.

This town is too small for you. You were always meant for bigger things. Girls like us aren’t fit for cages we are meant to fly.

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That’s kind of what I did.