I've been really clear that my first job as leader of the Labour Party and co-leader of the labour movement is to engage with our base.

I do not believe it is all about the leader. I think it's about the team, too. So we have one mission; we have one team; we are working to victory.

I support a constitutional conversation, as the Labour Party does, which will allow New Zealanders to evolve a more mature and stable constitutional form, but that's not something that I, as Labour Party, would want to impose, either on the party or on the public.

I have picked the very, very best deputy that I could. David Parker is a fantastic guy. He's a person who I trust absolutely. He's got a wonderful sense for policy. He will be great on organisation, and I know that I could not have a better deputy.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

I was always a very good student, 3.98 GPA... But once I found out I only had to take math and science for two years, I didn't take them junior or senior year. And I convinced my high school to give me actual credits for doing professional shows in Minneapolis... as work-study.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.