I Have To Be Able

When I’m Singing “deanna,” For Example, Which I Sing Pretty Much Every Night, It Brings Forward A Kind Of Imagined, Romanticized Lie About This Particular Person, Which I Find Really Comforting And Exciting To Sing About.

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?

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.

I See It As My Duty In Some Way Is To Be Out In The World As An Australian Putting Forward What I Consider To Be Authentic Australian Music.

I've Always Done A Lot Of Research And Stuff Around The Songs That I Write So There Are Pages And Pages Of Writing And You Can Kind Of See These Songs Emerging.