You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

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.

Just as a father hates cancer, because of what it does to his child, so God hates divorce, because of what it does to His children.

I grew up in a small, strictly-Catholic fishing village on the coast of Wales. The people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together more.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

I take vitamins. I workout every day.

The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.

The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.

A mind that is characterized by unrest will not be tranquil even in the presence of great calm.

The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly.

The only way to win the war is to move people's hearts and minds.

Terms such as obscene are used swiftly in order to protect people from exposure to the truth.