Let me give you a lesson about school. All the kids who were popular end up on the dole with babies. All the nerds end up as pop stars

If you think I have a great voice and body, youll be shocked as hell seeing and hearing me in the shower.

I said (to Daniel Jones), 'You realise I'm always going to be The Guy From Savage Garden'. He said, 'How do you think I feel? I'm The Other One From Savage Garden!'

I think that's what's really beautiful about music, that it is little pieces of your heart and soul.

I think I have a reputation for being really serious. In interviews I use big words, but I'm just an emotional goofball. I play practical jokes all the time.

I would let my child do whatever made their heart sing

I know it's not very masculine to say the moon is beautiful...but it is!

Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize youre alive. Thank God you feel them; otherwise youd be numb.

When I was 10 I used to walk around shopping centres and go, "Oh, they've recognised me!" And I would think, "hold on, who am I? I'm nobody famous yet!" - Darren on 60 Minutes

I used to wash up the dishes as C3PO. And it's very hard to put cups away when this joint doesn't bend! Mum was very tolerant.

If you've only had one relationship, how do you know you're good in bed?

Believe me...Nothing is bad, just prove it as right

When, and only when, you clearly see the inner roots to an outer condition, can you change them and thus it.

The law doesn't require truth, only the appearance of it. Most cases simply rest on a version of it that's acceptable to both sides. You want to know the only truth is? Everybody lies.--Elwin Stark

I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature.

I'm sure wine snobs look at me and think, how dare you.

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.

No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.

I write to please myself.

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.