Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

I've watched 'Oprah Winfrey.' And I'm proud. I don't care what anybody says! I don't know whether I've watched it. I've been in the room while it's been on.

When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.

You don't meet a lot of people that you really like. I don't anyway.

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.

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

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.