“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.”

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 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.

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 never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.

I got a dog with a Napoleon complex. I have a Napoleon complex. We’re small. Anything big that we feel is threatening us, we want to fight. We’re not a pushover.

I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

My mom was very strict. She didn’t let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.

I played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.

Export anything to a friendly country except American management.

Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

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.