I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don't ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie.

Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.

It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.

I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.

The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.

Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.

In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.