The Birthday Party Quotes
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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.
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At school I was an anti-magnet for women.
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Hamlet got a gun now.
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The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level.
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I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the Johnny Cash Show on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock'n'roll. I watched him and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing, a beautiful, evil thing.
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I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these artifacts that are taken out of context and how we're forced to view them as objects, as relics, as sculpture- static. But what's interesting is what it allows me to do in my head in terms of imagining what the possibilities are or imagining the role in which they played within a particular culture which I'm fascinated by.
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I don't believe in an interventionist God...
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Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine!
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My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.
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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.
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I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
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Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.
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It was about the preciousness of that, and how they viewed those birds as art, as something valuable. I didn't care one way or another back then, but now, thinking about my grandparents - who are still alive but getting older - I see the birds as sort of time capsules. Now I go home during the holidays and they hold a lot of weight in terms of nostalgia and memory. Now they mean everything.
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It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it.
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I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.`
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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
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When you've been initiated, you can stand in the world differently. And I think it is up to all of us, we can have cheerleaders, we can have supporters, but it comes down to us as individuals, how do we now proceed? Do we have the tools to proceed?
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I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.
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The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
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Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.