I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists - second rate Christianity.

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.

You're collaborating with people you don't even know, when you're making a film. You're collaborating with people you've never seen. So, the collaborative process is very, very different than when you're collaborating on a record with the musicians you've worked with all your life.

I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.