When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.

Hate and anger and disappointment and rage can be channeled in music into the most positive place.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

We drink VB, Victoria Bitter, which is way better.

A drummer is usually like the backbone.

I think JLo and iggy azalea have lost their heads up each other's big butts.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.

All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories—if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

The song and the land are one.

Fatal North was being poisoned to death aboard his own vessel and by someone from his hand-picked crew... a cold-blooded, calculating, pre-meditated murder by a diabolical killer.

If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.

Don't be so busy trying to make a living that you're too busy to make a life.

I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things; stretching and abdominal work.

I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.

Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.

I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.