It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.

I love America. I really do. It's by far the place I like visiting out of anywhere in the world. I get a palpable sense of excitement when the plane's landing. It's a cliché, but there's still an incredible energy about New York in particular.

Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

Anything that I'm doing I'm writing specifically for a particular project.

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.

I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.