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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say. "

" 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 won't go into the details, but I ready myself for the day. I am a high-maintenance type of guy. "

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

" The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level. "

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

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

" A gentleman never talks about his tailor. "

" If beautiful movies can influence you to go out and hug your children, then we have to be honest and say that other movies can inspire you to do bad things. "

" My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well. "

" I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one. "

" 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. "

" Most of my ideals and stuff really come from my mother. "

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

" I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning. "

" Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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