I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.

I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point.

It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love and for comfort and it lives on the lips of the child crying for his mother. It is the song of the lover in need of her loved one, the raving of the lunatic supplicant petitioning his God...The love song is the sound of our endeavors to become God-like, to rise up and above the earthbound and the mediocre.

I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest.

My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.

Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.