Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development.

The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song.

I'm an immensely shy and vulnerable woman. My husband has never seen me naked. Nor has he expressed the least desire to do so.

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.