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.

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.

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.

Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.

There is no need to worry about whether you are capable of manifesting what you want. The truth is, the universe already is providing you exactly what you have asked.

There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.

I get the worst compliments all the time. 'Oh you're Asian? I love orange chicken.'

Sometimes I just cry at random stuff!

So, President Obama wants to change America. I understand that. We dont need to change America. We need to change the White House. We need to change the leadership in the White House.

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, "To whom did this thought arise?"

I am absolutely delighted at the prospect of joining a world famous club like Inter.