Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

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.

Simplicity is the beauty of all creation.

The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.

Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

False. When things change, I will be happy. True. When I am happy, things will change.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

Well Kerry, you're 19 and you're a lot older than a lot of people younger than yourself.

Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest star, and the usual cast.

I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.