Claude Debussy

Music is the silence between the notes.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

As a young boy, I did a lot of foolish things. I made a lot of mistakes. And you live and learn.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

On Anzac Day, coffee and jokes with a Turk might be the most meaningful and fair dinkum dawn service you could possibly have.