Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.

I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.

Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.

I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.

I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

As people buy less and less records, it's become more and more important for me to spend more and more on them - to lavish that much more attention on them. The Bad Seeds were always quite protective and old school, but Grinderman has opened us up to do anything and be shameless. We're not so precious about it.