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.

At school I was an anti-magnet for women.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

Anything that I'm doing I'm writing specifically for a particular project.

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

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.

When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.