I am the captain of my pain.

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.

Preaching the Gospel in a brutal way is like telling your wife that you love her while she gets a punch right in her face.

The penal code deals with things like theft, false testimony, adultery, fornication, etc. and then there's the law of the state, the law of the individual and the law of the public.

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.

Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.

Chemistrys a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.

Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision.

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.