I have to be able to pull you in. How can I diversify my audiences? What role do I have to play to be part of that shift? I have to take that seriously.

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

There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.

God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowelless being of the Testaments - the vehement glorymonger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

Everyone wants to feel that they matter.

My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.