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" Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children. "

" After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time. "

" A gentleman never talks about his tailor. "

" An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany. "

" A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh. "

" As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup. "

" At school I was an anti-magnet for women. "

" At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration. "

" At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out. "

" Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly. "

" 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. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff. "

" 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 very happy when I can achieve that. "

" Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives you a lot of room to move within a relationship. A song can kind of get the girl, for sure. "

" Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not. "

" Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence. "

" Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that. "

" Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change. "

" I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so. "

" I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point. "

" I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable. "

" I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny. "

" I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion. "

" I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying. "

" I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that. "

" I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan. "

" 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? "

" I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really. "

" If beautiful movies can influence you to go out and hug your children, then we have to be honest and say that other movies can inspire you to do bad things. "

" If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?' "

" If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that. "

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