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

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.

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.

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.

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

Your life informs your writing.

I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" -

Nothing grows in the shadow of want without the sunlight of acknowledging your fullness.

Drugs may know how to numb a brain, but the past never forgets to resurface.

What a glorious day!

I know some women go in for excitement and danger. It must make them feel more alive. It's my professional judgment that you're a dangerous man.

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

[On Sting] He threw a sucker punch. There's the sucker who threw the punch. Him the the Bart Simpson hair doo.

Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.

The game asks that you work to improve, that you put something into it, and that you also give something back to it. The game is universal. It is a language that unites all of us.

Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.