I don't believe in an interventionist God

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.

There comes a time to speak your truth and the time is now

There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.

Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.

I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to four hours?

I paint my own reality.

Some people believe in God. I believe in music. Some people pray. I turn up the radio.

Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

I never coached Sachin Tendulkar, I gave him gentle advice when he asked for it.

For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.

Anybody that believes in separation of church and state needs to leave right now.