It's An Australian Thing To Be Dismissive.

I Lost My Innocence With Johnny Cash. I Used To Watch The Johnny Cash Show On Television In Wangaratta When I Was About 9 Or 10 Years Old. At That Stage I Had Really No Idea About Rock'n'roll. I Watched Him And From That Point I Saw That Music Could Be An Evil Thing, A Beautiful, Evil Thing.

When I Start To Write A Song, I Initially Fall Into Patterns And Creative Habits That Are Familiar, And Because They're Familiar, They Sound Convincing. It's Important For Me To Not Pursue Those Ideas, Because I've Already Done Them, But To Find Ideas That Are Different And Feel Strange To Write And Disconcerting To Write.

It's A Wonderful Life If You Can Find It.

I Write Songs In Batches And Then Record Them And Then Can't Write Again For Ages. I Try And Build One Song Upon Another, They May Not Obviously Look Inter-related But Often One Song Acts As A Springboard Into Another.

I Have To Be Able To Pull You In. How Can I Diversify My Audiences? What Role Do I Have To Play To Be Part Of That Shift? I Have To Take That Seriously.