How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.

The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.

I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am.

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

There's so many companies that are spending so much money on 17-year-olds... I can't compete with that. I'm not that guy anymore, they can't dress me up and roll me out there and make me look good. I am what I am!

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.

You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.

When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting!

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age.

My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian.

Like surgeons trying to save a life, the conservators and preservers at New York City museums dedicate themselves to ensuring the longevity of works of art for public view.

Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.

It is hard to imagine Andre Le Notre laying out the exquisite landscape designs for Vaux-le-Vicomte, and later the magnificent Chateau de Versailles, with no high hill to stand on, no helicopter to fly in, and no drone to show him the complexities of the terrain. Yet he did, and with extreme precision, accuracy, and high style.

As a little boy, I wanted to be a policeman. And then as I got older, and I saw my dad in the car business, an automobile executive.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

I'm attracted to roles where I don't have to wear makeup.

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

I was making Molotov cocktails long before I knew the name for them.

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

One of my all-time favourite guitarists is, in fact, a bassist - John Entwistle from The Who. He's one of my all-time favourites, the way he kind of expanded. I mean, he could have been a lead guitarist and been one of the best guitarists in the world. He wasn't even bass player; he was a bass guitarist, and he took the bass to another level.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies quite unlike people who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object relations.

I am a writer of fragments.

I can't write things. I'm embarrassed all the time about that, particularly if people don't know that about me.

All girls know that they can be anything now. That transformation is to me one of the most satisfying things.

Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.

Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.

And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.

They don't allow you to go any further unless you can do this bomb suit training, because it puts such a mental strain on your spirit. It dumbs you down about 25 to 30 IQ points. You start to hallucinate in the heat inside the suit after 20-30 minutes. So you try not to stay in it too dang long. So the preparation for that - it's either you have it, or you do not.