I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.

As people buy less and less records, it's become more and more important for me to spend more and more on them - to lavish that much more attention on them. The Bad Seeds were always quite protective and old school, but Grinderman has opened us up to do anything and be shameless. We're not so precious about it.

Everyone wants to feel that they matter.

I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the Johnny Cash Show on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock'n'roll. I watched him and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing, a beautiful, evil thing.

Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.