Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.

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.

I don't see what the point is in growing up.

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.

The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you

Each album has a different atmosphere. The third album and Houses of the Holy seem to be the two albums that people didn't get off on quite as strongly as the other ones. But I think they contain the basic ingredients for the further pursuance of what we're doing... the turning point to relieve the tedium of repetition.