I realised that in a lot of failures, there is a lot of opportunities.

I never think about my best interests. I think about what's the right thing to do in a situation.

I retired when I was 30 and I was bored shitless.

Do you really believe that in the late 1800s Paddy Hannan would have walked 600 miles in the hot sun from Perth to Kalgoorlie to discover gold if he had to pay the Wayne Swan resource super tax?

I love pensioners. My closest relations are pensioners.

I think the money that I've got is a consequence of the activities I've been doing and the interests that I've had in my life. I've never set out to make a lot of money.

Learn and train yourself to take the hits in life. Obstacles, barriers and setbacks will come. What matters is how you tackle them, work your way around or find your way through them.

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

There had to be a better way - if I couldn't find it, I wanted to create it.

Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something.

I woke up and was walking on a mountain, and I thought, "What's the worst thing that humans could do to the planet? Make it uninhabitable for humans and kill wildlife."

I was never into smart college boy music.

I'm half Native American and half white so I think I can adjust culturally to anything.

The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

Love, love, I have hung our cave with roses.