It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.

That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and have that tribe queue up outside and still be a mystery to everybody else.

Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.

In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.

Well I'm not convinced that expanding uranium mining is in the best interests of the country and the best interests of its environment.

I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.

The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.

I’m not ‘different’ from anyone else. Crises and tough emotional periods are the grit around which my inner self has been formed. Some, I have come through with more grace than others.

Never pretend to be who you are not. It doesn't take long before the truth gets revealed and you'll be left hurt with the results.

If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every single day and do stuff.

I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them.

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.

I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed work.

The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.

The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."

Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.