I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.

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.

Times will change. Peace changes even the worst of killers, " Ruth said."Into what?" Ezekiel asked.

Never compete with your master, because that is disrespect to him! You are your only rival, you compete with yourself, go beyond yourself!

If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

Life is a song to me.

The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.

The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business!

All beings, including each one of us, enemy and friend alike, exist in patterns of mutuality, interconnectedness, co-responsibility and ultimately in unity.

Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another.

Bruce [Dern] and I are in this car just for days and days, just talking about life and I could listen to his stories forever.