You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom.

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.

The Earth must have done some noble work

I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

Stay I whisper to him. Stay in the car. Stay in this moment. But of course he never does.

Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.

It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.

As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.

My daughter is a redneck woman, she's a redneck girl.

I believe in true love. But I am easily satisfied.

When people ask me to name the Ligonier teaching material they should use to help them grow; I tell them, 'You should start with The Holiness of God.'