My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

It's a wonderful life if you can find it.

He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.

All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

What will life be without music?

You can't fulfill your calling inside your comfort zone.

Crazy people. They never think they're crazy. Their craziness makes perfect sense to them.

The one who stands alone can become a winner, but can he be happy

The rest is silence.

The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Sleep is no servant of the will; it has caprices of its own; when courted most, it lingers still; when most pursued, 'tis swiftly gone.

It isn't. The Book of Abraham is not central to the restored gospel of Christ.

It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible.