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" Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated. "

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" The guitar is something you kind of embrace, and the piano is something you kind of - when you play it, you sort of push it away. It feels very different. "

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

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

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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. "

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

" In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact. "

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

" I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them. "

" I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act. "

" Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting. "

" 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. "

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

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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. "

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