experience Quotes

My trade and art is to live.

I spent my first five years in Canberra then moved to Sydney, where I moved around the Hills District until the age of 18.

My dad played in the National Soccer League in Australia and also played football in Malaysia.

I understand that all the songs I write are quite melodramatic and are quite extreme from my perspective, but that's how life feels to everyone at some point.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.