Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.

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.

It’s time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

People need revelation, and then they need resolution.

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.

Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.

People like controversy because that's what sells.

It's a good time for black people to be alive.

This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.