I feel really qualified to write about Australia.

I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.

I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.

Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.

I feel like I'm so normal. So normal it's boring.

I'll probably be still playing a school girl when I'm 60.

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, "No, it's for me."

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

I don’t know what to do with my future.

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

I think Dostoevsky was right that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture where he says this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.

The road from the eye to the heart is easy to follow. I am taking it with my eyes closed.

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

Touch is a freaky thing when you're not used to it. It makes you feel all kinds of things.

I don't know, but I think it's going to be good.

Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.

Beauty’s all around me right here. It’s not in a textbook. It’s not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight … The colors flow into your lungs, into your bloodstream. You are the colors.