The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.

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

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.

I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.