“Just making something up, something that’s not there, that suddenly is there.”

For Christmas when I was about four I got given ‘Can the can’ by Susie Quatro, so that was the first record I got. And I got Skyhooks “Ego is not a Dirty Word….

I enjoy the song writing process more than anything. It’s what I like the most, just sitting in my room with guitar or at the piano or something.

I saw my first gig here actually (Festival Hall in Brisbane) Duran Duran.

I was sorta listening to the Beatles and stuff the whole time since I was about ten anyway, then I started getting into Kiss and David Bowie at the same time

Hi, this is Bernard Fanning from Powderfinger. I’m in New York at the moment, and we’ve been walking around the city, it’s pretty strange.

I was walking along with Darren and Cogsy yesterday and we saw this guy playing cards, a little two up type swindle, and he ripped this guy off for like one hundred bucks in like, ten seconds, and the guy started complaining so he just packed up his shop and left!

I’m not particularly worried by any of the songs we’ve written in the past, except for some of the really early stuff which is total tripe.

There is a constant battle between Cogsy and I as who’s the biggest psycho in the band

Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.

Faith means that it doesn’t matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.

The only thing to prevent what’s past is to put a stop to it before it happens.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Happy relationships don’t just happen. You make them happen.

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn’t happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

Be available for life to happen.

Appeal can’t happen until I’ve been sentenced.