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" I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one. "

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" At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration. "

" I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them. "

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

" I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny. "

" A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany. "

" Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work. "

" 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'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a much murkier, much more complex view of its history. It's just full of all these open wounds we don't really know what to do with. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I've always worn suits. To me they're a very practical kind of thing to wear. You put one on and don't really have to think about what you're going to wear. "

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

" Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children. "

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

" 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. "

" I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become. "

" The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea. "

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

" L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation. "

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