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" 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. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

" L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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 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. "

" Most screen violence is tedious. "

" The idea of acting is something that absolutely repulses me. I just can't do it. I'm terrible at it. I get roped into films every now and then, and it's always a disaster. "

" I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" To me, I don't write when I'm depressed. If I'm depressed, which is actually rare, I'm not doing anything, you know, and I'm not able to do anything. "

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

" One of my big fears is drying up, and the more I create, the more I feel myself shrinking beneath the backlog of work I've done. "

" I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they're alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes. "

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

" The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful. "

" The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new. "

" 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. "