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

The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.

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

I write songs in batches and then record them and then can't write again for ages. I try and build one song upon another, they may not obviously look inter-related but often one song acts as a springboard into another.

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

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

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.