American politics are important because it affects the entire world in often negative ways.

It’s important to me that people hear my music on its own merit and not in relation to another project I’ve done. Ultimately, the music has its own energy and message and stands on its own.

Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you end up finding and inventing however you want to play it.

There are famous examples of people who just had really strange ways - [Jimi] Hendrix being the biggest example of that. Or someone like Keith Richards, he just has a really idiosyncratic style.

In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that rivals that.

A great painting is something that you can come back to again and again.

The lover drinksand the cup-bearer pours.The lover thinksbut the cup-bearer knows:love begets love.Since this wine is love, then this cup is love, then this tavern is love, then this life is love.

Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.

Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Australia is the most isolated continent.

In this life, you have to risk big to win big.

There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.

People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.

The moment we become uncomfortable is the time we should confess.