“It feels like it's just starting in America and the UK. It's great to have a loyal fanbase in Australia and New Zealand. People in America say how polished our band are, but that didn't happen overnight; that came from doing all this touring back home.”
“The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.”
“It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.”
“Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.”
“I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person.”
“I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.”
“Only the educated are free.”
“Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.”
“Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.”
“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”
“Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.”
“No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.”
