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.

We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand, and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you could hold onto that flame, great things could construct around it, that are massive and powerful and world changing, all held up by the tiniest of ideas.

A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer.

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

I have to be able to pull you in. How can I diversify my audiences? What role do I have to play to be part of that shift? I have to take that seriously.

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'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.