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" Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly. "

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" The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful. "

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" If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences. "

" The guitar is something you kind of embrace, and the piano is something you kind of - when you play it, you sort of push it away. It feels very different. "

" The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter. "

" One of my big fears is drying up, and the more I create, the more I feel myself shrinking beneath the backlog of work I've done. "

" Most screen violence is tedious. "

" Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life. "

" I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things. "

" The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike. "

" When you're talking about rock n' roll, myth-making is what it's all about. "

" My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education. "

" When you're making a film, there are so many people involved that you get opinions and notes from people and you don't even know who they are. I find that quite difficult and it wears you down. "

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" Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting. "