The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

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 . . .

Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it

I quote others in order to better express my own self.

If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.

To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.

He sighed heavily. "Girls are mean. At least faeries simply kill you if they don't want you around." He put a hand on the wall, leaning against it and tapping his foot impatiently.

I think that my favourite animal is a baby possum, or a joey. The face of a really little joey is so divine - so, so gorgeous.

I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.

Who knows how dead Lazarus was? Was Lazarus decomposing in a six-foot grave when Jesus resurrected him? No, he wasn't.

I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

Stats are for losers. I like winning games.

Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.