A drummer is usually like the backbone.

Hate and anger and disappointment and rage can be channeled in music into the most positive place.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.

We drink VB, Victoria Bitter, which is way better.

I think JLo and iggy azalea have lost their heads up each other's big butts.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.

Julia heard from her mummy that fairies were gentle creatures with singing voices just like the mermaids.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

The end is now the beginning.

If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don't deserve to win.

Men like women who are fun to be around, who are kind, intelligent, honest and who don't play games.

You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.

In the process of deeply accepting our own inner experience, instead of being identified with a story of a limited self, we realize the compassion and wakefulness that is our essence.

Even if I was a Republican, George Bush would have pushed me out of that party.

Leave an old flame in the past. It'll just get worse if you rekindle it.