I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

[Perhaps his response had something to do with Denton's assessment of Latham, as given on Triple M last week.] He is a very mixed-up man, very contradictory in what he says and how he says it, ... good relationship.