My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.

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.

How terrible to be a god of change and endure grief unending.

I was inspired by my son on the song 'The Most Beautiful People Are Broken.' Life is an extra challenge for him. But he does it all with such great grace and courage.

Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

Rock 'n' roll never sleeps it just passes out.

I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.

A 7-11 parking lot beat down is how life is.

(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)

The face... always the face. The body can [have] muscles or [be] too skinny -- I don't care.