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

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

I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet

I don't like those songs where you have to listen to a story to get into them. I don't want to have to pay attention to music in that way, I just want it to hit me in the heart and do what music's supposed to do.

The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else.

Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.