My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

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.

You can be anything, you want to be in this life.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

It's not for the writer to say whether the thing is successful or not.

Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy.

Utility is the true criterion of beauty.

Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the route that your attention follows.

There's just nothing funnier than, like, a guy awkwardly explaining to another guy that he's hurt his feelings, and then later, awkwardly, you know, forgiving him for doing that.

I've never worked so hard for anything in my life as I have for you.

It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.

Most recently, I learned another hobby: baking. It's so much fun to mix all the ingredients and to see the cake come out nice. It's so rewarding when the cake comes out great and tastes great.