I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.

I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them.

People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.

I love going up the West Coast of the U. S. because it's one of my favorite parts of the world to tour.

I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.