Do you really believe that in the late 1800s Paddy Hannan would have walked 600 miles in the hot sun from Perth to Kalgoorlie to discover gold if he had to pay the Wayne Swan resource super tax?

I realised that in a lot of failures, there is a lot of opportunities.

I never think about my best interests. I think about what's the right thing to do in a situation.

I retired when I was 30 and I was bored shitless.

I love pensioners. My closest relations are pensioners.

I think the money that I've got is a consequence of the activities I've been doing and the interests that I've had in my life. I've never set out to make a lot of money.

You are looking at the world from your window, that’s good, but there is something missing here, something very big: You must also look at your window from the world to see yourself!

I suddenly asked my master Caeiro, “Are you at peace with yourself?” and he answered, “No, I’m at peace.” It was like the voice of the earth, which is everything and no one.

People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour.

The Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way.

Mexico is the new China.

I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose.

Every ill man hath his ill day.

I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.

As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change.

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.