Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet?

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.

She had hoped. And hope broke more hearts than any man ever could.

Is life a fantasy or fairy tales?

He returns my smile. His teeth are beautiful, the loveliest I've seen so far on these streets.

In any really good subject one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

I like playing. I wouldn't be a good coach. I don't have the patience to be a coach.

Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own.

We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.

There is no such thing, as far as I'm concerned, as ownership in love.