What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.

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.

The old longing i had thought dead, rose in me like a flame

Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.

Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

I'm totally anti-commercialism.

It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.

What happens tomorrow is but the shadow of thoughts we held today.

I will be lord over myself.

These things are sent to try us, but why me?

A genuinely humble person humbles himself even before those who should be humbled by his presence.

Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you.