Robert Forster Hit Quotations

People often ask me would I swap the artistic reputation of a top 20 hit but I wouldn't and that comes down to how we feel about the music. Even in the early days when we formed in Brisbane we were always shocked after playing a gig that people we had never met before would come up to us and congratulate us on the songs and in a sense we've kept that naive sort of innocence about us.

There really is no need to sell 10 million copies of your album and while that situation would certainly have helped us, it's not what we're about. Looking back now I'm sort of glad that I never ended up being a rock star and standing on a PA stack in a stadium waving a white flag round, if you know what I mean.