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 love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.

With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on.

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.

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