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I Want To Write Songs That Are So Sad, The Kind Of Sad Where You Take Someone's Little Finger And Break It In Three Places.

The Body Becomes The Carrier For The Work. It's Not Really About The Physical Body; It Really Becomes The Apparatus That Carries And Moves The Work. I Don't Really Consider The Body As Much; I Look At It As A Tool.

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.

You Know, An Idea Is Just An Idea. There Seems To... The Kind Of Epiphanies That You Have, Like The Little Sudden Bursts Of Light, They're Very Small And They're Very Short And It's The Pursuit Of The Idea That's The Important Thing. . . . I Know A Lot Of People Who Have Way Better Ideas Than I Do That-much More Frequently Than I Do That Just Can't Sit Down And Actually Do It. Ideas Are Such Are A Little Overrated Really; It's The Work Behind The Idea That's The Important Thing.

That's What We [outsiders] Feel America Is Really About - The Kind Of Crazed Ravings Of The Christian Right - When It's Probably Something Quite Different.