I Don't Write Happy Songs.

I Am The Captain Of My Pain.

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.

The Problem With Books, Now That I've Written One, Is That The Idea Of Adaptation Is So Much Easier Than Sitting Down To Write Something New.

If You're Australian, You Feel It In Your Bones Because You're At Odds With Everybody Else, Except Other Australians, In The Sense That People Always Seem To Be Behaving Strangely. People Always Seem To Be Behaving The Wrong Way, In A Different Way. You Say Things And There Are Silences.

No Fish Can Swim Until The King Is Born, Until The King Is Born In Tupelo.