But, I’m a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan.

To me that’s what art is about – when you don’t really have any control over your desires to do it.

I’ve always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they’re acting, you know?

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that’s helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

You need to put aside a certain amount of time to book gigs otherwise you inevitably get caught up working on something else.

Creative types seem to want to project their personality onto me, ... I've done a lot of biographical stuff and reminiscences of other people's youth, which is not entirely interesting to me. Because it's such a small country, you do a few roles like, say, Jack Thompson or Bryan Brown, and you get indelibly stamped as representing this aspect of either people or the nation's character.

I have just been burnt, ... I have revealed myself occasionally to journalists and regretted the way they have written it.

I am going to actually try and concentrate on music just for a year,

I have been working on this project trying to record a little record a month just at home in a different genre for each one,

I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?