A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer.

When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar, they sound convincing. It's important for me to not pursue those ideas, because I've already done them, but to find ideas that are different and feel strange to write and disconcerting to write.

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.

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.

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.