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

You don't meet a lot of people that you really like. I don't anyway.

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.

As people buy less and less records, it's become more and more important for me to spend more and more on them - to lavish that much more attention on them. The Bad Seeds were always quite protective and old school, but Grinderman has opened us up to do anything and be shameless. We're not so precious about it.

Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.

We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.

Sound doesn't always have to be heard. Sound can also be created by how a pattern is set up on a surface- how it moves across the surface, how light reflects the surface [and] can generate a feeling. Sound can also be through feeling, through color, through texture.