The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course

If i had to do it all over again? Why not, I would do it a little bit differently.

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .

We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, I feel good, and no one's gonna stop me now.

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

I always knew I was a star, and now the rest of the world seems to agree with me.

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.

I was born to love you with every single beat of my heart. I was born to take care of you every single day of my life.

It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, I feel good, and no one's gonna stop me now.

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.

Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?

It's kind of bizarre, isn't it? Having that kind of attention. I'm not under the microscope in the same fashion that a lot of the other cast members are, so I think I can slide under the radar a little bit more, but getting any attention at all is completely new for me.

My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.

I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.

Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted.

I don't know that many Australian actors in Los Angeles, but there are a few of us. I mean, we kind of get together occasionally, but I wouldn't say it's an alliance or anything like that.

In Australia, getting an audition can be a rarity. There just aren't as many opportunities.

I've been doing American auditions for a while, and it always felt sort of like sending these audition tapes off into the ether. So just hearing anything back from anyone was kind of startling.

“Alone of all creeds, Christianity has added courage to the virtues of the Creator. For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.” 

“The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.”

“The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.” 

“It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.” 

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”

“There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one’s grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.” 

“I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him – rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.” 

“There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.”

“Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship.

For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.”

“Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.” 

“It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men – so long as it is a clear difference. A boundary unites. Many a magnanimous Moslem and chivalrous Crusader must have been nearer to each other, because they were both dogmatists, than any two agnostics. “I say God is One,” and “I say God is One but also Three,” that is the beginning of a good quarrelsome, manly friendship.” 

“A queer and almost mad notion seems to have got into the modern head that, if you mix up everybody and everything more or less anyhow, the mixture may be called unity, and the unity may be called peace. It is supposed that, if you break down all doors and walls so that there is no domesticity, there will then be nothing but friendship. Surely somebody must have noticed by this time that the men living in a hotel quarrel at least as often as the men living in a street.” 

“These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.” 

“Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.” 

“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.” 

“The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.” 

“Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.”

“The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.” 

“Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.”

“By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.” 

“And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads.”

“The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.”