I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

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.

I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.

Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid.

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

I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.

I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that.

I've always worn suits. To me they're a very practical kind of thing to wear. You put one on and don't really have to think about what you're going to wear.

The editing of a song is largely what makes the song for me and I think that actually if I had started going like 'I want you to burn' it would have pinned that song down to a particular thing and made that song a smaller idea than what it is. By leaving that off it's much more open, broader.