Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.

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.

If you are born on this planet, we want to make sure you get the kind of education you actually deserve.

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

To attract something that you want, become as joyful as you think that thing would make you.

I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete.

There is no limit to what God's people can expect their God to do if they are rightly related to Him.

Love isn't love until it's past.

Can we go back to the part about Moroi girls hanging out in LA?" asked Adrian hopefully. "Can you direct me to some of the…oh, let’s say, more open-minded ones?