10 Quotes by Alan Doyle

I have never eaten fire, or put a lit flare on my tongue. I have never wrapped my lips around a BBQ lighter and clicked it on. I have never taken hot embers from the woodstove and sucked them like candy. But I cannot imagine how any of these acts could have burned more than sipping a teaspoon of this liquor. If hell has a shooter, it must surely be this booze.

I'd never seen anyone quite like him before. Roger's flesh was the colour of potatoes, with deep furrows running along his forehead and cheeks, as if you could grow root vegetables in the lines of his face.

His waking cry was a mad battle cry from an ancient warrior before he leaps from his horse into combat with swords and arrows flying. He yelled as loud as an adult who'd just had his legs broken.

I think the first time we ever won an East Coast Music Award was in Charlottetown, so it's been good luck.

We figured we knew just about every song you could know in Newfoundland and ... there's probably six on this record that we'd never heard before,

We haven't met a single soul who's ever heard that song. He doesn't know where he heard it -- he can't remember.

Back in Newfoundland, we played in the kitchen because it was the biggest and warmest room in the house. Now, it's because its the closest to the fridge.

It's not unusual for songs to be like that,

That's the folk tradition live and well, that is,