It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say.

I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

I've got some words of wisdom.

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

I've always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.