Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.

The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don't have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.

When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar, they sound convincing. It's important for me to not pursue those ideas, because I've already done them, but to find ideas that are different and feel strange to write and disconcerting to write.

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 think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

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