I really enjoy doing things that are more subtle and close to home - and literally close to home.

Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really.

I never really enjoyed the fame stuff.

I really enjoy doing things that are more subtle and close to home - and literally close to home.

The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

Most of the time when I'm in Australia I'm not really working, it seems. I'm just at home, getting on with renovating my house or writing music or whatever. So I get back to doing all the stuff that I naturally do. Whereas if I'm away working, that's all there is to do, is to concentrate on the work.

There's something about the American sensibility that kind of hails people in the public eye. You have a star system. You have that kind of thing where you say, "Good on you for doing that."