In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that.

I like to do projects that challenge me, and hopefully in turn challenge the audience, or open your eyes to something you're not aware of.

I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.

I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories to become inspired again.

Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.

Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.

I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me.

I'm a huge sucker for comfort.

It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times.

I hate the feeling when I'm overseas, away from Australia, that I'm trapped, blocked by an ocean from getting to the people I love. That gives me anxiety.

You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play.

You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.

No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.

Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.

Why should we think that we wouldn't have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?

The truth is, the longer it goes, the harder it gets.

There's an obvious romance to being the drinking writer. But if I'm drinking, I'm not writing.

Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players.

All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.

When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete.

I like my ladies lady-ish, feminine so to speak. I love jeans and hoodies, but the idea of being an ultimate tomboy does slightly confuse me.