I just want to hear something I haven't heard before

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

At the heart of anything good there should be a kernel of something undefinable, and if you can define it, or claim to be able to define it, then, in a sense, you’ve missed the point.

All I ever wanted to do was hear music that I like and play it to other people

If the audience are leaving in ambulances, you know you've done a good job

All songs are about shagging, you can't deny it

I think a lot of the stuff I'm playing now is crap.

If you've got a CD that's not working, just wipe it on your trousers, and if you're not wearing any trousers, put some on

Teenage dreams so hard to beat

Believe in miracles as if there's no work, but work as if there are no miracles. When miracles and hard work come together success is certain.

I need you like a blossom needs rain, like the winter ground needs spring-to soothe my parched soul.

Your responsibility to be ready for the fight, never ends.

One of the best things about growing up in New Zealand is that if you are prepared to work hard and have faith in yourself, truly anything is possible.

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

A Libyan rebel has admitted to killing Moammar Gadhafi. He said he shot Gadhafi twice in the temple, to which Michele Bachmann said, "I didn't even know the guy was Jewish.

American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

In order to grow emotionally and mentally, sometimes you have to grow physically as well. I'm just trying to grow, man, and always I just want to be the best and most confident me I can be.

If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.

A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient.