Robert Forster Quotes

"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."
-Robert Forster

"We're still seen as an oddity."
-Robert Forster

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

"Well, normally we don't think all that hard about titles."
-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."
-Robert Forster

"The export ban has forced our beef industry to suffocate in isolation but now there is a chance it can be revived by the financial oxygen generated through access to a wider range of freer-spending customers."
-Robert Forster

"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."
-Robert Forster

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