I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.

I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good.

I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny.

Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that.

There is an integrity to INXS, in the music, that makes it worthwhile.

There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen.

I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press.

But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.

But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage.

I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it.

I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.

Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a side of me, which is indulgent and I expect certain things because of my position. It's one of the perks.

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes.

I still haven't come to grips with our success.

You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.

Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.

I know who I am and what I do.

I hate it when people lose it, there's nothing left because they're not interesting, they're boring, I hate it, and especially smack, people on smack are the most boring in the world.

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.

We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.

The ego constantly competes with the spirit for control over your inner voice.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.

I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.

Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.

That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.'

I never thought about being on a series before. It seemed like such a big commitment. But I love going to work every day. This is not about ego, it's about work, and that's refreshing in this town.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.