I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.
As I've gotten older, I realize how important my fans are and that I'm here because of them and not the other way around.
I think good art does come from a dark place.
I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.
If you want something you just have to see it and believe in it and not take no for an answer.
At this young age I am already sold on the idea of the dog. One of God's absolutely greatest inventions and one that needs no more tinkering. The dog is the perfect beast, companion, friend, shoulder to lean on, and scapegoat when too many cookies are missing. And a dog won't hold that against you, either. I am at peace sitting in silence with a dog.
If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.
Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.
Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.
I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.
I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.
I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.
I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.
I love my life, and I love the people that I'm connected to and I love my family and I love what I do, I'm passionate about performing and being onstage. That and meditating and hugging a dog are the only three times I am absolutely sure I will never get a depressed moment. So if I could go from dog-hugging to meditation to being onstage, I'd be good.
You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant.
Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.
You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.
My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.
You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons.
I meditate. Meditation helps me.
The great thing about meditation is that I don’t ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!
I do have a lot of deep religious iconography. I have crosses all over my house, and there's something very attractive about seeing nuns walking down the street. It's not a sexual thing for me; I know it is for some guys.
I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.
I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.
I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.
