I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

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

At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.

I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the Johnny Cash Show on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock'n'roll. I watched him and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing, a beautiful, evil thing.