You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan.

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.

Most people dont understand the process. They get frustrated by it. Dont Be. Focus

We have to allow ourselves to feel it in order to heal it.

If absence makes the heart grow fonder, then DO NOT be afraid to LEAVE someone who is messing with YOUR MOOD in a detrimental way.

There's no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i'm hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people's eyes.

In reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.

And for the people who promote drones as the answer to everything, there is a danger from being distanced from the reality of the ugly mess of war.

Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.

I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Hell is paved with good samaritans.