Bernard Fanning Quotes

Australia, Musician
August 15, 1969

Bernard Fanning is an Australian musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer and frontman of Queensland alternative rock band Powderfinger from its formation in 1989 to its dissolution in 2010.

Also known as Singer-Songwriter

I enjoy the song writing process more than anything. It's what I like the most, just sitting in my room with guitar or at the piano or something. Just making something up, something that's not there, that suddenly is there.

Bernard Fanning
- Enjoy
- Guitar
- Songwriting
There is a constant battle between Cogsy and I as who's the biggest psycho in the band.

Bernard Fanning
- Band
- Battle
- Psycho

I saw my first gig here actually (Festival Hall in Brisbane) Duran Duran.

Bernard Fanning
- Gig
- Duran Duran
For Christmas when I was about four I got given 'Can the can' by Susie Quatro, so that was the first record I got. And I got Skyhooks "Ego is not a Dirty Word.... I was sorta listening to the Beatles and stuff the whole time since I was about ten anyway, then I started getting into Kiss and David Bowie at the same time.

Bernard Fanning
- Christmas
- Kiss
- Record
Hi, this is Bernard Fanning from Powderfinger. I'm in New York at the moment, and we've been walking around the city, it's pretty strange. I was walking along with Darren and Cogsy yesterday and we saw this guy playing cards, a little two up type swindle, and he ripped this guy off for like one hundred bucks in like, ten seconds, and the guy started complaining so he just packed up his shop and left! And it was the smoothest swindle any of us had ever seen. So that was probably the highlight of our trip here so far.

Bernard Fanning
I'm not particularly worried by any of the songs we've written in the past, except for some of the really early stuff which is total tripe.

Bernard Fanning
- Songs
- Worried
- Tripe