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… — Tim Finn Copy Share Image
I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid. — Tim Finn Copy Share Image
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… — Tim Finn Copy Share
The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create… — Tim Finn Copy Share Image
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… — Tim Finn Copy Share
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… — Tim Finn Copy Share Image
I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly. — Tim Finn Copy Share Image
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...… — Tim Finn Copy Share Image
When you learn how to trust your feelings then you'll know how to recognize it - That part of you that needs no healing… — Tim Finn Copy Share Image
It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it. — Tim Finn Copy Share Image
