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

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" The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star. "

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

" 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. "

" At school I was an anti-magnet for women. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment. "

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

" When you're making a film, there are so many people involved that you get opinions and notes from people and you don't even know who they are. I find that quite difficult and it wears you down. "

" I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying. "

" Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid. "

" 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. "

" I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I won't go into the details, but I ready myself for the day. I am a high-maintenance type of guy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "