Walking beside you I want for nothing..

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can..

When you learn how to trust your feelings then you'll know how to recognize it - That part of you that needs no healing is like a swollen river risin….

Weave me a rope from this dark despair, from this dull-eyed pain... Weave me a rope from this endless night, from this distant shore... Weave me a ro….

The big change was reggae and hip-hop, which came along after Split Enz had started. When Bob Marley first visited New Zealand, he lit a fuse that is….

I'm a live performer and I love playing live..

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times..

I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid..

There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. T….

True contentment comes with empathy..

I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly..

You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choos….

I can't help it if I stretch the truth, not if that's the way it happened..

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have con….

I think a good song is a good song is a good song..

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs..

Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way everything is in sight. Trees bend….