I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.

When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.

If you have a little extra parking, I err on the side of getting rid of it in favor of having some more greenery.

A huge change has taken place in my lifetime.

I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.

I'm not really a money-oriented person. The press always write that I am. They don't seem to want to understand that I love the comfort of Japan and love the fact it's more peaceful, less frenzied than Hong Kong.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

I had seventeen No. 1 songs and I didn't see anything like that kind of money.