'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

You know, an idea is just an idea. There seems to... the kind of epiphanies that you have, like the little sudden bursts of light, they're very small and they're very short and it's the pursuit of the idea that's the important thing. . . . I know a lot of people who have way better ideas than I do that-much more frequently than I do that just can't sit down and actually do it. Ideas are such are a little overrated really; it's the work behind the idea that's the important thing.

Stars have their moments then they die.

I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.

It was about the preciousness of that, and how they viewed those birds as art, as something valuable. I didn't care one way or another back then, but now, thinking about my grandparents - who are still alive but getting older - I see the birds as sort of time capsules. Now I go home during the holidays and they hold a lot of weight in terms of nostalgia and memory. Now they mean everything.