I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

Hey, I'm not a politician. I'm a ham. I love to give speeches.

My music is roots music: it's a combination of growing up on the coast and mucking around with wood and wooden tones and sounds, salt, sand, fire, dogs, and heaps of brothers.

The spirit of yidaki is like a guardian for the song and the journey of my music.

I do pinch myself, like when shows in non-English speaking countries are sold out, and people are singing my lyrics. I don't think I'll ever lose that; I'm always appreciative every day of the support I have as an artist, because I'm not a commercial artist.

It's kind of like some kind of church for me, playing live. Each show, good people from different pockets of the world come and open their soul and let their spirits mingle and dance. That energy comes up through me, and all I do is channel it; it's like a circular motion and very sacred.

Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

I have a lot of fun playing quote unquote villains because I think the bad guys get to have more fun, right?

When I think about it, I was working very hard the summer before I applied to graduate school. I was going to the library every day in the summer. I read a play a day for about three months. I was taking audition classes, and I was reciting lines to myself and acting as my own scene partner. But I was having fun.

“Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.”

“One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!” 

"I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not."

Happiness is activity.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.