You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.

Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.

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.

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good humour and sensibility and I think that's okay. I don't care about the past, I'm a musician with ambition.

I'm a total soccer freak. I total soccer freak. Absolute total.