Australian Quotes

I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.

I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.

I start sweating and shaking and having panic attacks if I am not at home.

I never really paid attention to sales until the second record.

I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.

I have not really experienced any significant conflict with anyone in regard to my choice to be vegan, although going out to eat is hard sometimes.

I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that.

I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time.

I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.

Basically, the reason I'm vegan is because when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I began to understand that we don't need to contribute to the killing and exploitation of animals to feed our bodies correctly.

I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.

I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.

For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood.

Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.

I'm not doing Bond.