I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet

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.

My medication must be wearing off I'm starting to think my jokes are funny.

Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong

Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.

A lion never roars after a kill.

I've learned a lot about putting a show up in Vegas. You can't just all of a sudden put up a show here and do well. Nobody does.

Proclaiming the gospel to all mankind is a fundamental part of the mission of the Church.

For among nations - as within nations - the soundest unity is that which respects diversity, and the strongest cohesion is that which rejects coercion.

I wish I could blame my failure on my integrity & refusal to play bullshit games. But the truth is I just play them really badly.