‘You can’t trust politicians. It doesn’t matter who makes a political speech. It’s all lies…and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.’

‘Heart of Gold put me in the middle of the road. Travelling there soon became a bore so I headed for the ditch. A rougher ride, but I saw more interesting people there.’

‘If I’m more of an influence to your son as a rapper than you are as a father…you got to look at yourself as a parent.’

‘I don’t know why I bother really, because people don’t listen to rock n roll lyrics too much.’

‘Sometimes a woman can really persuade you to make an asshole of yourself’

‘I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don’t quite know how to explain it but it’s there. These can’t be the only notes in the world, there’s got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the crack’

‘I wanted to create a picture in music of what could be up there in outer space.’

‘The verses are the blues, the chorus is the gospel’

‘Where the hell is Australia anyway?’

‘The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience’