Still, it's clear that there are lots of people out there who are uncomfortable [about racism]. The Civil War was a long time ago but there are aspects of it that remain unsettled.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

Short people got no reason to live.

You may not get what you desire, but you will get what you deeply love.

I spend one evening with a handsome merman, and I become a silly mermaid with a crush.

The strange case of Billy Biswas had at last been disposed of. It had been disposed of in the only manner that a humdrum society knows of disposing its rebels, its seers, its true lovers.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

Surround yourself with good people, surround yourself with positivity and people who are going to challenge you to make you better.

It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

Whenever you can relate to the population of the team that you play for, I think it makes it that much more special.

The game isn't over till it's over.