I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the ones that we were interested in.

Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

Dark master of sin, now my soul is yours.

Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.

I remember feeling for the first time going somewhere where I was part of a community where I didn't feel like an outcast. I felt like I belonged. Everyone had a guitar strapped to their back.

You try to play the song better than you had before.

Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.

If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.

We're always in that head space about the audience and less about us at that moment.

I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.

I don't have very eclectic tastes in music.

The hardest part of changing things is knowing how much needs changing,

If you want an accounting of your worth count your friends.

All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.

Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.

I believe it's time for direct action on climate change, standing together as ordinary Australians to take control of our shared future.

dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.

When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

You must write to the people's expertise.

Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realise his wishes- Now that he can realise them, he must either change them or perish