To Sustain Hatred Is A Very Difficult

I've Had To Try And Find A Way Over The Years Of Writing Narratively That Doesn't Really Require You To Sit Down And Work Out What The Story's About. You're Brought Into A Sort Of Sequence Of Images That Have That Emotional Resonance, But It's Kind Of Irrelevant What The Actual Story Is. It's Taken Me Maybe 13 Albums Or Something To Work That Out.

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.

My Responsibility As An Artist Is To Turn Up At The Page Or The Piano Or The Microphone. The Rest Is Up To God.

Some People, Myself In Particular, Have An Adversarial Relationship With The Camera, And It Sprouts Up In Every Photograph.

If You're Australian, You Feel It In Your Bones Because You're At Odds With Everybody Else, Except Other Australians, In The Sense That People Always Seem To Be Behaving Strangely. People Always Seem To Be Behaving The Wrong Way, In A Different Way. You Say Things And There Are Silences.