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- 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.
- I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.
- I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.
- To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are…
- Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always…
- The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable…
- Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist.…
- I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a…
- The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of…
- Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for…
- We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the…
- All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at…
- A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer...
- Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the…
- You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom.
- I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt