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" My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not. "

" It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia. "

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

" To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect. "

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

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

" When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like. "

" After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time. "

" The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else. "

" I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things. "

" 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. "

" You can't trust an artist that just makes good records. "

" I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning. "

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

" Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff. "

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

" I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books. "

" 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. "

" The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful. "

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