Hamlet got a gun now.

I am the captain of my pain.

I've got some words of wisdom.

Most screen violence is tedious.

Stars have their moments then they die.

Everyone wants to feel that they matter.

I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.

I don't believe in an interventionist God

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

At school I was an anti-magnet for women.

It's a wonderful life if you can find it.

I've never been interested in being relevant.

Do I personally believe in a personal God? No.

The singing tells everybody what to do musically.

He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.

You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

God is in everything whether I'm mentioning him or not.

Most of my ideals and stuff really come from my mother.

Personally I find the story of Christ incredibly moving.

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously.

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!

You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.

I've always felt like an imposter, in the whole, as a musician.

I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.

No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.

Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.

I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children.

You don't meet a lot of people that you really like. I don't anyway.

I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.

Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.

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

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

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

Anything that I'm doing I'm writing specifically for a particular project.

Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.

I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.

Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.

I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

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