They're fun. You see his great gift for humor and melody even at that age.

It's very lively. It has a great dance feeling, great humor with squeaking, cackling clarinets. ... It builds to an ecstasy of all-out wild playing.

He's the quintessential interpreter of Irish songs.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky.

I want to have some fun before I'm through.