I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning.

I won't go into the details, but I ready myself for the day. I am a high-maintenance type of guy.

I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.

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

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

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.

I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.

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'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.

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

I've always felt like an imposter, in the whole, as a musician.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

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

I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?'

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.

'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.