The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.

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.

Better to find your own way than to blindly trust the words of others, whoever they are.

I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.

Forgiveness is a little thing when love is there.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

I think I've always been paranoid.

Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.

If one of us is chained, none of us are free...

Just don't die for me, you won't be doing me any favour !

One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.