Do Tasmanian devils really exist?

Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

I make a living doing what I love doing, and it's what brings me joy.

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.

I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.

I don't get mad too much.

I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity.

Our greatest mistakes, if we look at them, and digest them, and interact with them, and learn from them… they can be the greatest moments of our lives.

You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

If you are as happy my dear sir on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home you are the happiest man in this country.

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today.

A martial art that has no rules is nothing but violence.

I've been around racing a fairly long time, but when it comes to the important issues, I'm happy to let others make the big decisions.

I always feel like there’s no fighter that I can’t figure out.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.