I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

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.

In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close to a living thing as you could get without being one.

In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature, and so on.

Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self.

I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.

Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball.

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

It specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant.

It usually takes about two and a half weeks after you're done filming where you kind of return to yourself again.

I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.