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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

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Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.

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

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There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better.

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I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

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You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

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

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My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

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People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

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Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.

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

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I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

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

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Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting.

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I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a much murkier, much more complex view of its history. It's just full of all these open wounds we don't really know what to do with.

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People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down.

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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

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

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It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say.

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I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

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