No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.

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.

The world is not fair. That's why it needs heroes.

The reason you were born is for a purpose

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.

I feel worthless. My girlfriend was attacked on the subway yesterday. And I can't even enjoy it.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't

Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.

For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.