"Believe it or not, I even love the editing stage. It's something that apparently comes naturally to me."

“It is this claim to a monopoly of meaning, rather than any special scientific doctrine, that makes science and religion look like competitors today. Scientism emerged not as the conclusion of scientific argument but as a chosen element in a worldview - a vision that attracted people by its contrast with what went before - which is, of course, how people very often do make such decisions, even ones that they afterwards call scientific.”

“Always think that what you have to do is easy and it will become so.”

“Australia is so entrenched in rock n'roll and bands, and that's just the way Australia is.”

Source : "Ricki-Lee Coulter: 'Everyone's got a bit of Hanson in them'". Interview with Bridie Jabour, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2013.

“Because I could throw so hard when I got to college, they made me a pitcher. If I had to it all over again, I would have stuck to playing in the outfield. I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.”

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

“In a justly organized community, however, government exists to secure the right to life and the other human rights that follow from that primary right.”

“I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough.”

“As writers we need to crack open language.”

“My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.”