Don't take your friends for granted or that everyone is going to be OK.

Kids grow up, and they still need you.

Partners fall in and out of love, but they still need each other.

I have always loved soul singers.

I always wanted to be in a rock band, but I wanted to sing like a soul singer.

I'm happy to be recording and singing live. I have a great family, and a great bunch of people always come and see me sing. What more does a man need?

When you get behind with the tax department, it's very difficult to catch up.

The best thing about this country is the difference in all of us. We all come from different backgrounds. It's a really beautiful thing.

We all do the best with what we have.

I was not an ideal parent, and there were things that I did right and things I did wrong.

Jane and I - somehow we fell into each other's arms, and I adored her! I loved her from the minute I saw her. I don't think I knew what love was.

I wanted my children to never feel like they were unsafe. I wanted them to have everything they needed.

Songs are like sign posts in my life.

My dad was a womaniser, a gambler. He was violent. They thought if they left Scotland, they would leave the problems behind.

I love playing live.

I was actually wilder before I joined Cold Chisel. I was really wild.

Iggy Pop is legendary - he is awesome - and I am a massive Bruce Springsteen fan. His song 'Cautious Man' is my favourite song. It's really poignant, dark, and moody, like myself.

I'm good at maintaining a face. If you've got that bravado, and people expect anything from you, then you'll get away with anything.

In the 1970s, we got a Labor government that put more emphasis on trade with Asia; the Vietnam war ended, and refugees were coming in. We were more part of Asia than America and the rest of the world. There was the proximity, for a start - all these countries and cultures just north of us. It just made sense that that's what we were part of.

I'm not running out of inspiration.

I sat in on some songwriting classes, and it was really bloody hard, a lot of music theory. I'd be sitting there, and they'd be talking all this music theory, and the teacher would say, 'Let's ask our guest Jimmy what he thinks,' and I'd be sitting there thinking, 'Please don't ask me, please don't ask me.'

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton.