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

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.

People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.

I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.

And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.

Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of different ways people explain that, but, you know, I find that if I sit down and I prepare myself, generally things get done.

Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.