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

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

" I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way. "

" A gentleman never talks about his tailor. "

" When you're on your own, you have all the self-censorship that everybody has when they try and write. All the little voices that say, 'No, you can't write that, what will they think of that?' "

" The idea of acting is something that absolutely repulses me. I just can't do it. I'm terrible at it. I get roped into films every now and then, and it's always a disaster. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on. "

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

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

" 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. "

" It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say. "

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

" 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. "

" If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that. "

" What I'm resistant to is the 'Walk the Line' biopic, where you have this redemptive life done in two hours. It just doesn't wash with me. I've been there and things don't work out that way. "

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

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