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.

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine!

To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting.

You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.

Hamlet got a gun now.

There are times when I think I can sing it better, but usually I find that I can't.