No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

If only they gave all unsolved crime cases television air time, they could be solved within an hour.

Positive thinking and negative thinking cannot operate at the same level in your mind, one needs to be the master and the one you feed it more will rule over the other.

You have visits, then you have disappearances. You enter, then you exit. You come, you go. It would be so great if you could just get to human enlightenment on a linear path.

It's nice to be able to let go of the reins sometimes and know that somebody you really trust is gonna pick them up as soon as you do.

I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can.

I was occasionally getting calls for some things. But I would say, 22 to 29 was a lot of scuffling. Hoping to get called for bad wedding gigs and I did do an off-Broadway show for about 15 months.

For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.

The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.

For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.

Know what it is that you are trying to find out.