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" I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it. "

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" I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point. "

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" I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief. "

" What I'm resistant to is the 'Walk the Line' biopic, where you have this redemptive life done in two hours. It just doesn't wash with me. I've been there and things don't work out that way. "

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" I won't go into the details, but I ready myself for the day. I am a high-maintenance type of guy. "

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" After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time. "

" The idea of acting is something that absolutely repulses me. I just can't do it. I'm terrible at it. I get roped into films every now and then, and it's always a disaster. "

" I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect. "

" I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story. "

" The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood. The way it works is that people get an idea you could possibly do something, but there's a one-in-a-hundred chance that it could get made. "

" I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really. "

" Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives you a lot of room to move within a relationship. A song can kind of get the girl, for sure. "

" I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way. "

" I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination. "

" With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on. "

" The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star. "

" I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way. "

" I've watched 'Oprah Winfrey.' And I'm proud. I don't care what anybody says! I don't know whether I've watched it. I've been in the room while it's been on. "

" Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph. "

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People

" 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. "

" Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that. "

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" There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better. "

" People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions. "

" I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable. "

" As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup. "

" I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement. "

" Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated. "

" The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive. "

" I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music. "

" I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they're alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes. "

" You can't trust an artist that just makes good records. "