Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.

If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.

You can't make people respond.

If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it.

Everything I do is the environment.

If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off.

A nurse later told me that I was her ‘”One.” Meaning, I was her one story of hope to tell others who are facing similar odds against them.

Solitude is the "think tank" of the soul.

To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

I'm no more intelligent than the next guy. I'm just more curious.

Don't let the bastards get you down.

I love 30 Rock. It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

I never thought to stay here without papers. I had visa. I travel every few months back to the country, to Slovenia, to stamp the visa. I came back. I apply for the green card.

I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.