Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

It's a wonderful life if you can find it.

He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.

All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

Synergy is the VCR of media right now - discredited, outdated and left behind.

Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.

A country without a border is like a person in a house without a front door. Anybody can enter and you cannot ask anybody to leave.

If you want to be somewhere, you should go to that place and check it out.

We cannot run away from the TB epidemic. It is a moral injustice.

People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.

I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.

We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies.

What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY.