I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.

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.

Through the ages, countless spiritual disciplines have urged us to look within ourselves and seek the truth. Part of that truth resides in a small, dark room -- one we are afraid to enter

For some the proud roar is not about being in charge it is more about "hear me, I miss you" yet those words fade,

A pebble thrown in a poolmay ripple from end to end, but tossed into the sea, it is swallowed by enormity.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

Oppression is the essence of power.

I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

I have been around at a time when important things needed to be done.

Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.