I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

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.

There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch.

Forget not the Sacred Sands...The grains that pass through Time’s ancient hands!

Don’t blame any one, including you. There is something called destiny.

Novelists don't normally write about what's going on

Photography is the story I fail to put into words.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.

It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world.

When a scientist says something, his colleagues must ask themselves only whether it is true. When a politician says something, his colleagues must first of all ask, 'Why does he say it?

Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.