After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.

When you've been initiated, you can stand in the world differently. And I think it is up to all of us, we can have cheerleaders, we can have supporters, but it comes down to us as individuals, how do we now proceed? Do we have the tools to proceed?

My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.

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