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

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" A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don't have the people skills. You have to be clever. I'm not really clever in that kind of way. And you have to be able to manipulate people, but at the same time allow them to feel like they are manipulating you, to get the kind of movie that you want. "

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

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

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

" At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration. "

" What I'm resistant to is the 'Walk the Line' biopic, where you have this redemptive life done in two hours. It just doesn't wash with me. I've been there and things don't work out that way. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that. "

" There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better. "

" I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a much murkier, much more complex view of its history. It's just full of all these open wounds we don't really know what to do with. "

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

" The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "