With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on.

I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.

The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song.

At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing 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.