“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”

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

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

I never really did any disco dancing.

Im the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then theres a few more albums in us.

I’ve worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

Everybody is a teenage idol.

But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.

I don’t ever wish I was somebody else.