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" 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. "

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" I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act. "

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

" I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect. "

" I'm hugely self-critical in the morning. "

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

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" With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on. "

" There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe. "

" 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. "

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" I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story. "

" 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. "

" My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that. "

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" My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education. "

" 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. "

" People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down. "

" The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive. "

" I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become. "

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

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

" I've watched 'Oprah Winfrey.' And I'm proud. I don't care what anybody says! I don't know whether I've watched it. I've been in the room while it's been on. "

" 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. "

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