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.

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.

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.

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

A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

Sometimes losing is winning

Beauty is in the eye of the Creator.

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.

Memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will.

Follow the truth of the way. Reflect upon it. Make it your own. Live it. It will always sustain you.

In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.

If I hadn't been living here [in America], do you think we would have gotten a Grammy? No chance.

I've been writing forever, 20 years.