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.

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.

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.

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

To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

Lingerie is that inner, secret glamour.

Your obligation as writers is to distinguish yourself. … The ultimate result should be a book that you write that no one else could have written.

Global vision, local win.

That's what I need from everybody right now - enjoy life with me.

My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer.

There are still people - the majority on the stage, they want to topple [Bashar] Assad. And then there will be chaos, and I think ISIS will then be in charge of Syria.

Love is our steady guide on this road full of hardships.

If dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am I lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: She was very articulate, more than me. She could say things in a very few words that I take a long time to communicate.