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I'm just a normal working class boy from Belfast.

I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.

Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.

If I had stayed in Belfast, my life there wouldn't have as easy as it was in Scotland. I see the strain on the people who stayed. Always worrying about the safety of their children.

People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

I've never read anything set in Belfast that doesn't involve the Troubles or something senseless over a flag.

Northern Ireland has treated me well, you know?

Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.

My parents were Belfast Catholics.