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" Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things. "

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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. "

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

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

" With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences. "

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

" I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point. "

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

" If beautiful movies can influence you to go out and hug your children, then we have to be honest and say that other movies can inspire you to do bad things. "

" Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work. "

" I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar. "

" 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. "

" 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 concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one? "

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

" I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really. "

" Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change. "

" I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so. "

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