I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan.

I've got some words of wisdom.

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

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.

The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness.