I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes.

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 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.

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.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

I will stand with Israel if they are attacked.

A sense of humor isn't everything. It's only 90 percent of everything.

A guy in Pennsylvania was arrested because he was drunk in his golf cart going from bar to bar. So they arrested him. I said: Wait a minute. Isn't that golf?

I have nothing to do with Russia.

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact

Investors have no reason to feel bearish. True value investors are glad the markets are down.

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.

I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself.