I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that.

Everyone wants to feel that they matter.

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

I feel like I've spent the last five years of my life on the road. It hasn't affected my songs but it's probably affected everything else about me. Obviously, the more you travel, the wilder the things that keep happening to you, the more likely it is you'll get complete strangers knocking on your hotel room door.

To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting.

The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don't have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.