I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.

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.

Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.

I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else

Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we're going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating.

I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal.

It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.

Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her.

If you're searching for "work/life balance" you'll always be disappointed because "balance" connotes a zero-sum equation.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.