If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.

I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.

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

I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I'm a man.

I write songs from the point of view I had at a time;I'm not tryingto write songs from a young person's point of view.That only ends in disaster.