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" I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange. "

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" I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so. "

" At school I was an anti-magnet for women. "

" 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. "

" It's possible to get through life without a religious structure, but I don't think that's a very fruitful way to live. "

" 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 an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I've always felt like an imposter, in the whole, as a musician. "

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

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

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

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

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

" Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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