Australian Musician Quotes

"I'm very, very pleased. Our goal today was to come in here and do the best we could, and we did that."

"If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse."

"I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored."

"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 walk into the studio and we're all so happy to see each other."

"I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear."

"There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying."

"I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another."

"You don't only just use your voice, you use support form the lungs and diaphragm and everything gets old, whether you like it or not."

"I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her."

"The hesitancy is in the detail, not the principal. There has been no resistance to the principal of women playing in the Open if they are qualified for it. We are not dragging our feet. It's just that we never had cause to think about it before."

"I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary."

"Since I've been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it's really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold."

"The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself."

"An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany."

"You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history."

"I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner."

"Most people remember me for a couple of tunes."

"For a time that you couldn't get a gig if you didn't look a certain way."

"You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up."