My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory.

Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for all of these reasons – but ultimately the love songs exist to fill, with language, the silence between ourselves and God, to decrease the distance between the temporal and the divine.

Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists - second rate Christianity.

What I want people to recognize is that we have to keep working together and take charge because we all have the same story.

I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable.

I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.

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