When you're on the Olympic team at 15, you don't do anything else. There's no normal social development, and your decisions are made for you.

Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.

They had no previous connection whatever with Connemara; but they saw connections where others who should have seen them simply looked the other way.

It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.