I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don't have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.

I love America. I really do. It's by far the place I like visiting out of anywhere in the world. I get a palpable sense of excitement when the plane's landing. It's a cliché, but there's still an incredible energy about New York in particular.