You don't meet a lot of people that you really like. I don't anyway.

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.

When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past.When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.

It is with our voices we remember, with our ears we understand.

Louisiana has got a very specific warmth and humidity and richness of light.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

I think Bitcoin is a massive conceptual and helpful step forward.

New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand.

A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation.

Listening to nature's operating instructions.

True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.