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

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" Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence. "

" Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that. "

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

" 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 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. "

" My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Personally I find the story of Christ incredibly moving. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Most screen violence is tedious. "

" 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. "

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

" 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'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. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "