Montaigne

My true memory has been tainted by old home videos of my sister and I, ages 3 and 5 respectively, singing karaoke…

— Montaigne

Dad is a skilled athlete and runs his own football school for kids. While football is his entire life and he encouraged…

— Montaigne

My dad played in the National Soccer League in Australia and also played football in Malaysia.

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“People try to get out of themselves and to escape from the man. This is folly; instead of transforming themselves into angels,…

— Montaigne

“How many things were articles of faith to us yesterday that are fables to us today?”

— Montaigne

I went to all of Dad's football games. As I got older, I got involved. He taught me everything I know about…

— Montaigne

All of us feel, I think, that our experiences can be the worst possible thing you can go through and that we're…

— Montaigne

“Cada cual llama barbarie a lo que no forma parte de su costumbre.”

— Montaigne

“We need but little learning to live happily.”

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“If any one should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I feel it could no otherwise be expressed…

— Montaigne

I understand that all the songs I write are quite melodramatic and are quite extreme from my perspective, but that's how life…

— Montaigne

I started writing - just generally - when I was 10, there, and started writing songs when I was maybe 11 turning 12.

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I'd probably do something that involved music, a booking agent or working at a label, if not being an actual musician.

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“If only talking to oneself did not look mad, no day would go by without my being heard growling to myself. -…

— Montaigne

I spent my first five years in Canberra then moved to Sydney, where I moved around the Hills District until the age…

— Montaigne

Laughter is a uniting force, it brings people together, and it makes hardship easier.

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I love music, I've always done music, felt it on a spiritual level and I write for myself and not anybody else.

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“We are all blockheads.”

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“For in truth habit is a violent and treacherous schoolmistress. She establishes in us, little by little, stealthily, the foothold of her…

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“The beautiful souls are they that are unniversal, open, and ready for all things.”

— Montaigne

My biggest strength in life is that I'm good at learning and I'm really good at admitting when I'm wrong and recalibrating…

— Montaigne

“If I am a man of some reading, I am a man of no retentiveness.”

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I read a lot, I write a lot, and I have conversations with people I think are intelligent and wise.

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“Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice.”

— Montaigne

“To obey is the proper office of a rational soul.”

— Montaigne