I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all.

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.

I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.

Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.

I think every singer hears songs that make you want to sing them.

I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.

Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases.

The object of my worship lies beyond perceptions reach. For those who see, the Ka'ba is a compass, nothing more.

Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.