I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

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

That's what I like about watching a movie: you enter an imagined world that's more interesting, more engaging than your own. Or less painful than your own.

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

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

The way people reacted to me in dressing rooms and so on was incredibly aggressive. They know every record and they seem to think they should nudge me or bump into me as they go past. It was this incredible performance that used to amuse me. In the early days, people were drawn towards us like they'd be drawn towards a car smash...There is a definite relationship between that fanaticism and the fan that, as a performer, you expose more of yourself, of the undercurrents of your personality. Most rock personalities subdue that or choose not to explore it.

Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine!