Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

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.

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

Four months in the life of a seventeen-year-old is the stuff of swings and roundabouts

While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

I always thought I was going to die before I was 60.

I'm the world's worst bearer of grudges. I'm sure I'll be bearing grudges and paying off old scores on my death-bed.

The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.

God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.

Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

From now onwards, whenever you fail -- just congratulate yourself.