I'm able to actually choose places to go which have intrigued me for the last god knows how many years, and Tasmania's always been one of those places.

Don't be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can.

I may as well do everything as if it’s brand new, and if I start to feel that any of it’s a compromise, then I’ll...I’ll be in Wisconsin.

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

I use the music almost as a compass in some kind of quasi-romantic way. I try and go to places that I'm intrigued by, and I take this music with me, using my name at the front.

Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.