"Theoretical concepts of music and extended techniques are more like seasoning to me; they're not the meal. I like outside music that still has a sense of forward motion and an emotive quality to it."

“It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances.”

“The master maker of the human body did not create you and then run off and leave you masterless. He stayed on the job as innate, as the fellow within, as nerve transmission controlling every function of life, as spirit from above-down, inside-out, expressing, creating, exploring, directing you in every field and phase of experience so that your home is truly the world and the world is your home.”

“Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.”

“Never be too quick to criticize yourself. It's not fair to all of your friends and relatives, who are dying to do it for you.”

“I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.”

“If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?”

“Someone said one time, 'If your marriage isn't your priority, you're not married,' and I thought, for me that's so true. So as long as I keep her as a priority, everything else sort of seems to work. And when I don't keep it as a priority, it's ... Jenga.”

Source : "Keith Urban's Number One! Country crooner reveals his marriage to Nicole Kidman is like a game of Jenga, saying 'life would fall apart without her keeping things 'balanced'" by Karishma Sarkari, www.dailymail.co.uk. March 03, 2015.