I definitely grew up on a lot of American bands. I didn't really know that there were any decent Australian bands until I was around 20.

I grew up listening to Nirvana, and then went through some bad 90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.

I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that'll never happen again - it's a bit weird when you think about it.

If I'm not touring I'd just be at home, just driving - I'm kind of at a loss for how that stuff works.

People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good.

Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.

Smoke Ring for My Halo was the first album I bought of Kurt's Vile, and when I first listened to "Peeping Tomboy" I was really depressed and unemployed. But the lyrics are, "I don't want to work. I don't want to sit around all day frowning." I was like, "Ah! Yes!"