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

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" No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don't have the people skills. You have to be clever. I'm not really clever in that kind of way. And you have to be able to manipulate people, but at the same time allow them to feel like they are manipulating you, to get the kind of movie that you want. "

" 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. "

" When I'm singing 'Deanna,' for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying. "

" At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out. "

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

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

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

" Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid. "

" 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. "

" I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time. "

" Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say. "

" 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 would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people. "

" 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. "

" Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing. "

" What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood. "

" 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 more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level. "

" To me, I don't write when I'm depressed. If I'm depressed, which is actually rare, I'm not doing anything, you know, and I'm not able to do anything. "

" 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 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 don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one? "

" 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. "

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

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

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