I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.

It's always a risky business inviting somebody on stage. You never know what they're going to do. I try to avoid letting people join me onstage because it can be very distracting, and overly theatrical.

I don't like those songs where you have to listen to a story to get into them. I don't want to have to pay attention to music in that way, I just want it to hit me in the heart and do what music's supposed to do.

I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the Johnny Cash Show on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock'n'roll. I watched him and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing, a beautiful, evil thing.

I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.

Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.