I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.

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

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.

I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.

I've watched 'Oprah Winfrey.' And I'm proud. I don't care what anybody says! I don't know whether I've watched it. I've been in the room while it's been on.