The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

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.

In the end it's only words, my dear.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself

Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.

Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.

I didn't work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people can't.

I am not yet born; O fill me With strength against those who would freeze my humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with one face, a thing

I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.

The internal conditions in Iran are worsening in all aspects. Poverty and unemployment are becoming more severe, despite the fact that Iran has turned into a developed and industrialized country.

If you can remember the sixties, you weren't there.