I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.

I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself I can’t be helped.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.

No mind seems more peaceful than the mind of a sleeping innocent child because life has not yet planted the seeds of sorrow in that mind!

I was beginning to feel compassion for myself.

She looked at him, his black, depthless eyes like boiling wells of oil.

you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.

The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.

A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.

We are not a problem people, we are people with problems.

There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.

I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are.

It's a fact of life that how you dress affects how you are perceived and whether your contribution to a meeting is registered as worth listening to.