I love Neil Finn. I've loved everything he's done since Split Enz.
Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.
Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.
A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.
There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.
Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.
Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.
I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.
In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?
The funny thing is just the collision of genres, taking one medium and trying to ram it into another medium, whether it fits or not.
There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.