I kind of like polishing the songs that I'm working on. I'm really working hard on some specific songs.

I started playing bass in my friend's band for some reason. It was just something I did because, well, he asked me if I wanted to play bass and he played me this song - Nirvana's version of "Molly's Lips", the Vaselines song - and he said, "You can do this! This is not hard!" and it's like a two-note song. I learned that and then I thought I was a genius.

I had so many songs that were actually sort of finished. And I deleted them. I wrote on my website that I'd put them on the shelf, but that wasn't true. I actually deleted them from my computer. I got sort of trigger-happy and I think I deleted about 200 songs from my computer.

I wanted to create a more spontaneous outlet for my songwriting to have alongside the more long-winded process of making an album. I wanted to have some fun.

The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing.

I'm not too fond of the typical Australian activities or culture. I'm not into surfing.

I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.