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.

Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.

I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

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