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 is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer.

The body becomes the carrier for the work. It's not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don't really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool.

I write songs in batches and then record them and then can't write again for ages. I try and build one song upon another, they may not obviously look inter-related but often one song acts as a springboard into another.

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.

If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.