Whatever you do, you do out of a passion.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

In chaos is where learning happens the most.

Without guilt or remorse, shame was an empty emotion. Indeed, shame would not be shame.

I definitely grew up on a lot of American bands. I didn't really know that there were any decent Australian bands until I was around 20.

How is it that we can entrust the solutions for the problems that confront our country today to those who are complicit in their creation?

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

It's not insincere to say you're happy if your determined to make it true and live in that consciousness.

Because I am a deep believer in the civil society, I think we should be prepared to pay the consequences of breaking the law and that is either paying the penalty for it, or leaving the country.

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.