Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

Not my biggest fear, but my biggest problem onstage is over-emphasizing what I do. I'm pushing too hard. You need to engage an audience. They need to be able to involve their own imaginations as well. They don't need everything thrust down their throat, and I have a tendency to do that. I always have had a tendency to do that.

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

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.

It was about the preciousness of that, and how they viewed those birds as art, as something valuable. I didn't care one way or another back then, but now, thinking about my grandparents - who are still alive but getting older - I see the birds as sort of time capsules. Now I go home during the holidays and they hold a lot of weight in terms of nostalgia and memory. Now they mean everything.

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.