I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

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 have things that I'm interested in, and I'm not really interested in writing about anything that I'm not interested in. But it's important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.

At school I was an anti-magnet for women.

When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.

I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they're alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.