It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it.

What I want people to recognize is that we have to keep working together and take charge because we all have the same story.

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

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.

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.

The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter.

Stars have their moments then they die.