We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?"

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

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

I've watched 'Oprah Winfrey.' And I'm proud. I don't care what anybody says! I don't know whether I've watched it. I've been in the room while it's been on.

I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.

I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that.

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