The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

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.

Freedom and dignity for everyone in the world, is the hardest thing to achieve, but we must not give up.

It won't matter if nobody ever thinks I'm pretty (although sometimes I wish, just for a second, that somebody would)

No man is rich whose expenditure exceeds his means and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher. I memorized Scripture from the time I was little.

Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.

Yes, I want kids. I don't know that I'll ever be ready. But, I'll certainly want them. I'll have them regardless of whether I am ready, I think. I just don't have a timeframe on it yet.

Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.

People die, but money never does.