I've always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.

When you've been initiated, you can stand in the world differently. And I think it is up to all of us, we can have cheerleaders, we can have supporters, but it comes down to us as individuals, how do we now proceed? Do we have the tools to proceed?

As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.

I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they're alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.

No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.

It's a wonderful life if you can find it.

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