There's no way to learn how to write a hit song. There's no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.

I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world.

Cricket is battle and service and sport and art.

I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality

All Australians are an uneducated and unruly mob.

I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

Remember you are different than anyone else for a reason. A good reason. Find that reason and run with it.

Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.

Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.

But one day, the things that make you free start to keep you down.

Your life informs your writing.

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.

Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing.

He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.

This planet is for everyone, borders are for no one. It's all about freedom.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

If you have a friend or a family member who's bipolar, or has panic attack disorder, or is depressed, read up on it a little bit so you can get to know where they're coming from.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!

A lot of women don't know how to vent and deal with emotions.

If I had to pick between Heaven and Hell, I'd pick Hell, because I can't keep white clean.