Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say.

If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!

I've had to try and find a way over the years of writing narratively that doesn't really require you to sit down and work out what the story's about. You're brought into a sort of sequence of images that have that emotional resonance, but it's kind of irrelevant what the actual story is. It's taken me maybe 13 albums or something to work that out.

A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer.

I don't believe in an interventionist God

In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact.

I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that.