I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping

There is an integrity to INXS, in the music, that makes it worthwhile.

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.

Cause we all have wings But some of us don't know why

Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that.

But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.

I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny.

You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.

We’re depriving our kids of the chance to do the work of life for themselves.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream.

I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.

The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations.

Monsters will always exist. There's one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other.

I didn’t find it difficult to live in the “Inherent Vice” world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.

As a Republican, I am all for competition.

Music is what I love to do, so you'll never have to worry about me not doing that.

Find happiness in tribulation, too. Find it in joy alone and you could lose it, sooner or later, and be left with nothing.