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.

The body becomes the carrier for the work. It's not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don't really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool.

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

I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than being at the peak of one. I think it's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it.

I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

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