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

I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than being at the peak of one. I think it's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it.

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet

At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

It's a wonderful life if you can find it.

The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level.