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It seems to me, that if we love, we grieve. That’s the deal. That’s the pact. Grief and love are forever intertwined. Grief is the terrible reminder of the depths of our love and, like love, grief is non-negotiable.

Most screen violence is tedious.

Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.

The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn’t, it dies. It’s important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.

As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.

I don’t think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.

There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better.

That’s what I like about watching a movie: you enter an imagined world that’s more interesting, more engaging than your own. Or less painful than your own.

I don’t write happy songs. Who does? I don’t know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.

I don’t really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does this mean in your home? And how are you supporting this work and the message behind the work?

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say.

Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It’s an unsightly act.

You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don’t like to get my knees dirty. I don’t have a garden.

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs just don’t have that capacity. They’re locked within a period of time. And as soon as you take them out of that period of time, they die very quickly.

The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It’s the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song.

Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children.

Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There’s a lot of different ways people explain that, but, you know, I find that if I sit down and I prepare myself, generally things get done.

I’m always sort of looking for projects that I can sort of put out into the world, into the public sphere, and to somehow cause an effect. I want to be able to create projects that sort of are going to make people think and think in this sort of magical, sort of fantastical way.

I don’t feel I’m thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

I’ve always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

There are times when I think I can sing it better, but usually I find that I can’t.

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.

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Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.

When I’m singing ‘Deanna,’ for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.

I feel very much a part of what I’m writing about, and I’m writing about things that concern me on a daily basis. I’m not really interested in writing musical diaries, if you know what I mean.

I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I’m concerned I’m actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I’m a man.

The body becomes the carrier for the work. It’s not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don’t really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool.

You’re collaborating with people you don’t even know, when you’re making a film. You’re collaborating with people you’ve never seen. So, the collaborative process is very, very different than when you’re collaborating on a record with the musicians you’ve worked with all your life.

I know when I sit with my band members and we’re playing back a song that we’ve done, I know that they’re experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they’re alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.

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I saw a sick man pick up his instrument and be well.

The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it’s an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas – that is the romantic vision of the painter.

My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I’m quite like that in real life as well.

To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.

What you’re really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I’m not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.

I’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.

The problem with books, now that I’ve written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

Wanting everything is the thing that eventually tears you apart.

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.

The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts – especially the women in my life – moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life.

I’ve always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it’s an unfolding of a story.

I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.

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