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

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.

The failure of one regional bank, assuming it is following a traditional model, will not threaten the entire system.

What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small children. They are the first and purest source of artistic creation.

It was then that I realized that while playing the well-meaning tolerant individual (in short: liberal) garnered you fans and grades, it didn't matter. In my heart and head, I was a fraud.

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.

For me, language and how I use it are very important. I held back on doing a poetry book, walking the fine line between trying to be helpful and just putting more junk out there.

The least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to.

Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume.