I'm not too fond of the typical Australian activities or culture. I'm not into surfing.

I make a living from storytelling - if you're a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a visa, and you are actually doing that, you're gonna end up in trouble.

I would cut off my right arm to be someone's lover.

What's broken can always be fixed What's fixed will always be broken

You don't get over a broken heart/ You just learn to carry it gracefully.

I would never kiss anyone/ Who doesn't burn me like the sun.

I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.

I really think I need to find a home. I don't know if that includes a girlfriend or not, but first I need to find a home, definitely.

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

I must admit that it seems like my mind really reconstructs some things, and in a very - I just know that it seems like some things are not as I remembered them when I do some investigation.

I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.

Your life may not have gone the way you planned it, but it will go the way it's supposed to.

In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible.

Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics.

Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.

You don't need to say any special incantation or sacrifice a stray cat or something first?

I'd rather fail at something important than succeed at something trivial.

Everyday is a holiday when you're RVD

It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.