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.

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.

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

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.

Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for all of these reasons – but ultimately the love songs exist to fill, with language, the silence between ourselves and God, to decrease the distance between the temporal and the divine.