War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

I was actually wilder before I joined Cold Chisel. I was really wild.

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

When I was 18 in Cold Chisel, I didn't want to make it to 21. Who wants to be that old?

The best times in Cold Chisel were when we were all in the back of the car together, us against the world.

When I first started, all the reviews of Cold Chisel would say, 'This singer won't have a voice in six months.'

Liberals want to amend our country's history to eradicate the role of Christianity in America and chisel references to God or faith from our historical buildings.

Cold Chisel had their moments, but basically, they were all decent, quiet chaps. I was just a lunatic. Those guys didn't know what had hit them when I joined the band.

Driving a steamroller over an old trumpet or a teaspoon is no more destructive than taking a chisel to a lump of marble already torn from the landscape. But people don't see it that way because marble is considered noble.

Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.

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