Music begins and ends in the air - it's got to be shared.

There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want.

In a lifetime there are only a few people you can work with... where you can trust each other and push each other in different directions.

I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.

When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've just got to go there - to the boredom, the banality, the loneliness and all that. Those moments of really feeling in the flow are fleeting.

The bombs were coming-and so was I.

When you fall in love, your heart blooms like a flower and your soul transforms and transcends like a butterfly

The words ‘when I take you home’ echoed in the captain’s mind, caroming off that private place where all his suspicions and uncertainties slept.

We never know how far reaching something we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow.

I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.

To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found.

You have to be able to give the people what you want in your way. And that's how you, to me, become a person that they love and not just a fly-by night actor.

The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.

I've triumphed over addiction.

When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.