I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.

I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet

When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.

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

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.