No one has to give you permission to make music or make art.

You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.

Dreams are the result of a million choices, a billion failures, and a few successes.

I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me on stage in front of 500 people at a wedding. I'd never done karaoke before.

Be brave, fight for what you believe in and make your dreams your reality

Love isn't who you can see yourself with. It's who you can't see yourself without.

To find yourself, you must first lose yourself

Put one foot in front of the other. Keep marching forward, even when doubt, fear, and failure all come knocking at your door.

Never think about something wrong you did in the past, always look forward with your head up high; have no regrets.

I like to employ the power of no. We all want to say yes, because with yes comes so much opportunity, but with the power of no comes focus and engagement.

PLEASE REMEMBER WHEN YOU ARE FULL OF DOUBT AND IT ALL SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE THAT THERE IS STILL SOME WHO BELIEVES IN YOU, ME. XO

Mourn with those are sorrowful.

Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions

I always react to news immediately. That's my business.

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.

If anything caused ISIS, it was the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Australia is so entrenched in rock'n'roll and bands, and that's just the way Australia is.

You don't get fewer followers saying outrageous stuff on Twitter.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others.