Tim Finn Quotations

I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.

It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it.

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid.

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly.

What looked good is that we seemed to pick up speed as the night went on.

I thought Clay delivered the ball well, and we know Brandon can run. The thing with quarterbacks and running backs is they're only as good as the guys in front of them.

That drive home. It wasn't fun.... We're sorry we didn't come over there and look better. We hope your fans come over to see the game... We like our place to be a great place to watch a game, but a miserable place to play. We'd love to return the favor this year.

I was told they had some good skill people, like we do. It's just a matter of finding and working with the linemen. It's not something that's going to come overnight. We'll get it worked out.

We have some dings and bruises. But we're be at near 100 percent participation, and having everyone playing at 100 percent.

We are a band that plays for each other, with each other, and of each other.

We played a lot of people and we have a lot of young kids. There were a lot of positives. We just didn't control the ball in the second half.

We're kinda in the same boat. It probably will come down to who takes better care of the football. It'll come down to who's matured the most to this point in the season. Both teams will have a lot of first-time Friday night players.

We killed ourselves (with penalties). We could have been ahead more but we let them come back and once we gave up the lead, we couldn't answer. We let down our intensity, and that was probably the most disappointing thing.

You can't do that to yourself, especially against a good team like that. We moved the ball downfield, but stopped ourselves. We're preventing ourselves from getting where we want to be.

We've got a lot of people to look at, and that's what you try to do in a scrimmage. We've got some things we need to work on, but we also did some good things.

We didn't need to do it, we wanted to do it. It's not about what will make us money.

It's not the best song I ever wrote but I'm passionate about the Victoria Theatre in Devonport.

Even when bad things happened to them, it turned out good.

New Zealand might get a guernsey at some point.

It took us, from the formation of the band, eight years to pay our way properly.

I can't help it if I stretch the truth, not if that's the way it happened.

Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way everything is in sight. Trees bend so branches don't have to break. We mend the wounds of our last mistake... I live one way holding onto the fence post. I live another way sliding off into space. Each life is loosely assembled... Birds swim, fish do fly. Proud man begins to cry. Birds swim, fish do fly. Things change, so why can't I?

Walking beside you I want for nothing.

Weave me a rope from this dark despair, from this dull-eyed pain... Weave me a rope from this endless night, from this distant shore... Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

When you learn how to trust your feelings then you'll know how to recognize it - That part of you that needs no healing is like a swollen river rising. So choke me with a violent passion and drown me in a deep emotion. You've got to help me build this feeling. I'm swimming in a stagnant ocean. Been blinded by smoke and mirrors and crippled by a fear of tomorrow. If you don't help me shake this feeling, then I'll be marking time in Limbo.

You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.

The big change was reggae and hip-hop, which came along after Split Enz had started. When Bob Marley first visited New Zealand, he lit a fuse that is still burning very brightly. The Maori people particularly honor reggae music in a very big way. So there is a strong reggae scene and a strong hip-hop scene, especially among Samoans. There's still plenty of quirky stuff around. No one expects to make much money here, so it definitely does encourage an underground sense.

True contentment comes with empathy.