I have things that I'm interested in, and I'm not really interested in writing about anything that I'm not interested in. But it's important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.

I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.

Stars have their moments then they die.

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me