Quotes from Montaigne

I take after my dad in the calm and measured way he approaches situations.

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

I'm all about preaching forgiveness and compassion.

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.

All festival food is expensive.

I went to all of Dad's football games. As I got older, I got involved. He taught me everything I know about playing it.

Laughter is a uniting force, it brings people together, and it makes hardship easier.

'Ready' is dedicated to young people who are not yet jaded and worn down by the realities of this world.

I read a lot, I write a lot, and I have conversations with people I think are intelligent and wise.

I realised the animal agriculture industry is actually awful and tragic and I can't bear to be a part of that. The environmental impact of the agriculture industry, the health impact on us, there's all the reasons.

Dad is a skilled athlete and runs his own football school for kids. While football is his entire life and he encouraged us to play, he still found time to take me to ballet and tennis lessons.

With San Cisco, young kids are more willing to yell at whoever is standing on stage. The difference between the yelling and the quietness is if the older crowd are quiet, they're showing you respect. When you do get a cheer back from them, it's special because they are actually listening.

I'd probably do something that involved music, a booking agent or working at a label, if not being an actual musician.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other

Que sçais-je? (What do I know?)

Saying is one thing and doing is another

Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.

There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.

Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery.

The continuous work of our life is to build death.

Il faut se prêter à autrui et ne se donner qu'à soi-même.

We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.