Everyone wants to feel that they matter.

I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.

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

Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

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 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.