I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

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.

If you look for endings you can always find one, but I truly felt as if I had used up the last of my youth, if youth is that finite stage of life when it all feels expeditionary, inexact.

Every man in the world is better than some one else. And not as good as some one else.

Arrogance pedantry and dogmatism are the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

The skin is forming because of proteins, just like if you cook milk or anything else that's got a coagulant protein in it.

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.

I've always wanted to work with Elizabeth Banks. She's so talented and funny, and she's become this force of nature - directing, producing. Being around her is kind of inspiring.

The Sun and the science are the same; when they set down, the darkness comes!

Be mindful of everything going on around you and always be on point but don't be so on point that you lose that ability to be what it was that got you out there.