I've been voted one of Australia's 50 national treasures. I've even had my face on an Australian stamp - the only non-Australian to do so, apart from the Queen, of course.

It is important to dress for success.

South Sydney is a very complicated and wonderful place. You have some of the most expensive bits of real estate in the country and a large percentage of government housing.

If there is no blood on the line, it is not rugby league.

People say, 'Surely there's the right reasons for going to war?' And my perspective is, 'Surely there's a better way of asking that question?'

Music's always been a huge part of my life, and my first record came out in 1981.

I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland.

I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

I don't really take vacations because when I'm working, it's usually in a far-flung, exotic place somewhere. But I have a farm in Australia I like to go back to when I'm at home and not working.

'Swallow My Gift' is all about music being its own reward. I don't do it to become more famous; I don't do it to make money. I don't do it from an ego-driven point of view.

I love going shopping. I have a black belt in it.

Imagine what you will be, and it will be so.

I hate having long hair. It's like walking around with a dead koala on your back!

Even bad men love their mamas.

This is possibly the most shameful situation I've ever gotten myself in in my life, and I've done some pretty dumb things in my life. So to actually make a new No. 1 is spectacularly stupid.

I have to believe I got some kind of say over our lives.

I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do.

Brothers, what we do in life........echoes in eternity.

The thing about films is you learn new stuff all the time. You think you can get to a point where you've got it all down. But then another, different situation arises.

The secret to riches is the same as the secret to comedy - timing.

Are you not entertained?

It's such an intimate experience, being a director, artistically. It's deep and it's satisfying and it's wonderful, on so many levels, but it's also really scary.

Iceland is fascinating; really an amazing place to visit, and great for a film to go there.

Even though Noah is in the Koran as well. But we knew going into this project that you can't make stories or render images about the Prophet. But I do believe people are missing out if they don't have the choice to see this film.