Quotes by Robert Forster

Grant wrote the melody and it wouldn't leave my head, so I grabbed it and started work on the lyrics. It worked really well, too.

I do contemplate making an album that's entirely unlike The Go-Betweens as everyone seems to know us, but maybe that's a dream. It really is a tempatation at times, though.

I do try to be resentful, I really do, but I just can't bring myself to do it.

I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are.

Mmm, well that whole thing about having to look tough has never left Australia.

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.

Somehow I think it would end up a folk-rock album if it came to pass.

The other thing about this reunion tour is that we're not all being represented by different lawyers and travelling in different tour buses and there are no rows about who gets to walk onstage first each nights - the sort of situation that we know exists on other reunion tours. We're doing it as friends.

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.

We're still seen as an oddity.

Well, I started to feel more comfortable in the musical environment when I noticed people were beginning to appreciate the likes of Lee Hazlewood and Serge Gainsbourg again. Certainly something better seemed to be coming round, and that seems to be true.

Well, normally we don't think all that hard about titles.

Well, you know what? The actor still gets up in the morning, if he's still got something to work with, you go out there and you do it. Never quit!