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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" When I'm singing 'Deanna,' for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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