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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" It's possible to get through life without a religious structure, but I don't think that's a very fruitful way to live. "

" 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. "

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

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

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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. "

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

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" 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. "

" I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan. "

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" The guitar is something you kind of embrace, and the piano is something you kind of - when you play it, you sort of push it away. It feels very different. "

" Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you. "

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

" I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs. "

" I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination. "

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

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

" 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. "