If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: "Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar."

Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

Accept certain inalienable truths.

In this country, particularly, actually in times that are difficult, or from corners of America where you least expect it, unbelievable pure creativity has welled up. Generally because of the cross-fertilization... a Scott Joplin tune becomes jazz, becomes blues, and becomes rock 'n' roll.

Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.