Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.

I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world.

Cricket is battle and service and sport and art.

I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality

All Australians are an uneducated and unruly mob.

I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

Remember you are different than anyone else for a reason. A good reason. Find that reason and run with it.

There's no way to learn how to write a hit song. There's no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.

Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.

But one day, the things that make you free start to keep you down.

Your life informs your writing.

Standing alone is better than being around people who don't value you.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

After the journey around the world, writing Hope's Edge, I began to see that it is not possible to know what's possible - and therein lies our freedom.

the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

A good pay-master starts not at assurances.

You can work well with people that you may not get on well with in life because it's a parallel realism.

My strategy has always been to give people just enough of me, then pull back. That way, they'll want more.

Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy.

God's own foolishness is stronger than men. Do we believe that?

How flattering,” I grumbled. “My soul glows.