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

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

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" My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that. "

" 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. "

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

" Most of my ideals and stuff really come from my mother. "

" My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits. "

" 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 get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I'm a man. "

" Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music. "

" 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. "

" I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan. "

" If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe. "