Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs just don't have that capacity. They're locked within a period of time. And as soon as you take them out of that period of time, they die very quickly.

At school I was an anti-magnet for women.

Everyone wants to feel that they matter.

Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say.

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.