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

I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!

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

There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.

The editing of a song is largely what makes the song for me and I think that actually if I had started going like 'I want you to burn' it would have pinned that song down to a particular thing and made that song a smaller idea than what it is. By leaving that off it's much more open, broader.