The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness.

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.

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

Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions.

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

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.

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.