A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.

Yesterday, some hooligans knocked over a dustbin in Shaftesbury.

Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.

Events in the train of prophecy that had their fulfillment away in the past are made future, and thus by these theories the faith of some is undermined.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.

We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language...

There's not enough of us in the Northern Territory in Federal Parliament to squabble.

Everything can happen in the playoffs.

Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life.