Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.

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 it's an amazing role, I'll do anything.

If your guard is up, let it down. If you've constructed a defensive wall to protect yourself and keep all the bad guys out, don't forget who that wall also prevents from getting in - the good guys.

It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you.

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .

The Spanish league is fantastic, but it has not the great passion the English Premiership has got.

[First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

Being a martyr is highly overrated.

Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living.

The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.