I've always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.

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.

Travel, for me, is a breathtaking experience. A humbling for the soul and the realization that we are all in this together.

I was a sad kid.

We're going to establish a procedure where people can leave the line, go outside, take care of themselves and the government's gonna pay.

Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.

You don't want to do anything that doesn't glorify God in every way.

One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word.

Be part of the miraculous moment.

Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

Don't eat fried food, it angries up the blood.