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.

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

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

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

I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn't so bad. BO chic it should be called.

It's an old Aboriginal word meaning 'Let's get together and have fun'. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it.

I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.