The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.

If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?'

If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.

The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.