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" Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph. "

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" I'm hugely self-critical in the morning. "

" I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange. "

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

" I've always had an obligation to creation, above all. "

" 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. "

" I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that. "

" You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate. "

" 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. "

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

" If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about. "

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

" I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion. "

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

" Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children. "

" 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. "

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

" The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike. "

" I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable. "

" 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. "

" If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?' "

" 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 more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level. "

" The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one. "

" The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song. What do I write about? I never know. "

" There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain. "

" The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive. "

" 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. "