'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

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.

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

...what a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are)-...

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.

We all leave footprints as we journey through life--make sure yours are worth following.

I ain't never called nobody no redskin. I've never been mad, like, 'Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.'

How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?

We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.