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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that. "

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" 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. "

" People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down. "

" The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new. "

" 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. "

" I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike. "

" If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences. "

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

" I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they're alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes. "

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

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

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

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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. "

" 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. "