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

I won't let the sun go down on me.

I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.

There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink.

There is a major turning point in life when you have to decide: shall I grow old gracefully or shall I try everything to stem the tide? For me, that point came in 2001, when I stopped dyeing my hair.

I love Neil Finn. I've loved everything he's done since Split Enz.

The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

There is no ultimate objective reality within the ten thousand states of mind. Most people don't like to hear this. But there are ten thousand realities, and each is definitely unifying.

Personal power, knowledge and fun come from how you approach something, not what you approach.

I said I kicked a French chicken in the stomach once." "Huh?" "It said, 'Oeuf.'" "What is that?" "It's a joke. Do you want to hear another, or have you already had un oeuf?

I can concentrate on my art.

There is nothing else that I would rather do than sing. I have such a great passion for it. Even if I don’t become successful or famous I am still going to continue singing.

Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds between armies and their commanders.

I'm the last person that wants to give away music for free.

Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.