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

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

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

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

What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.