“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.”

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

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.

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

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

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.

In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy – and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

In London, you’ll be walking around and, ‘Oh, there’s the ground.’ Every area of the city has a Premier League club. They all survive; they all exist with enough money, and that’s good.

… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’

I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

When I was 20, I used to go around telling stories, and I knew where I was comfortable – onstage, talking, making ’em laugh and listen to the weirdest things. I liked being the center of attention.