A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

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.

Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.

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.