The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.

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.

Dating becomes a cutthroat game of musical chairs with everyone scrambling for available partners to avoid standing alone at 30 when the music stops.

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.

In the face of adversity, you find out if you're a fighter or a quitter. It's all about getting up after you've been knocked down.

My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later

Vision lifts you up. It makes you smile a secret smile because you know that you have something very special to share. What is your vision?

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it's almost evening.