“Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I’m a woman’s man: no time to talk.”

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I’ll just record it there and then.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn’t work out that way if someone else records it

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man’s daughter would not understand blues.

You are never really prepared for criticism.

I’ve never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you’ve got to come home.

We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we’ve delved into.

I’m very much a family person.

When you are in your 20’s and 30’s, you just want a hit record and you don’t really care how it happens

As long as you’re having fun, that’s the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it’s over.

I’m Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.

I will always have my songs and I don’t think I will ever dry-up

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them

I never really did any disco dancing.

Don’t fight forces, use them.

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything.

We used to fight all the time but now that I don’t see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.

It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.

I used to bodyguard for some celebrities and other people, and when I wasn’t doing that, I used to work at a disco as a doorman or a bouncer.