“Everybody is a teenage idol.”

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

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.

It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least.

These days, with ‘American Idol’ and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that — the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

I think we’ve made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we’ve treated anything else.

My heroes were always soccer players.