I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them.

The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time.

I sit around and play acoustic guitar - usually acoustic, sometimes electric, occasionally piano, but more often guitar, just trying to come up with tunes. Ideas kind of pop into your head.

I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.

Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.