I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.

He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.

Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet?

The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid.

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.