I liked getting the Grammy more than not getting it.

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

There is trouble in my mind There is dark, there's dark and there is light There is no order, and there is chaos, and there is crime There is no one home tonight, in the empire of my mind

I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.

It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well.

But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.

Its a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

There's only one thing that's certainAnd that's everybody, everybody's hurting

Bob Dylan led me to this kind of music - and it's his and ours. And it's nobody else's.

I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't overintellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to do. I think it's something you do if you put the work in.

If God would cry, you can´t compare it to a tsunami.

Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.

Geoff Nelder's ARIA has the right stuff. He makes us ask the most important question in science fiction-the one about the true limits of personal responsibility.

When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'

I think women have the ability to stick with things over a long period of time.

If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

If you can laugh together, you can work together.

You nickednamed my daughter after the Loch Ness Monster?

I don't think I've ever been personally fulfilled performing. It's kind of a challenging thing; it's more of a sacrifice for the people that I love.