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

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

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.

To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.

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.

The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.