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" If beautiful movies can influence you to go out and hug your children, then we have to be honest and say that other movies can inspire you to do bad things. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so. "

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" 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. "

" I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the 'Johnny Cash Show' on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock n' roll. I watched him, and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing - a beautiful, evil thing. "

" The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas. "

" A gentleman never talks about his tailor. "

" Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you. "

" In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact. "

" I'm hugely self-critical in the morning. "

" When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like. "

" To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going. "

" The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body. "

" I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that. "

" 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 have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden. "

" Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not. "

" 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. "

" My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well. "

" Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can. "

" 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. "

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

" I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs. "

" I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning. "

" It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say. "

" I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god. "