Anything that I'm doing I'm writing specifically for a particular project.

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say.

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.

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

One thing that I'm really interested in is the kind of esoteric detail that surrounds these great figures. And Wikipedia is full of that kind of stuff, whether it's true or untrue. It staggers me: why, in the short space assigned to a person or an event, that kind of random information is there. To be honest, that's wonderful fuel for songwriting.