I Don't Really Do Japanese Interviews. I

You're Collaborating With People You Don't Even Know, When You're Making A Film. You're Collaborating With People You've Never Seen. So, The Collaborative Process Is Very, Very Different Than When You're Collaborating On A Record With The Musicians You've Worked With All Your Life.

Everybody Tends To Overplay Live. That's Just The Nature Of Playing Live. And That Can Be Great, But It Can Also Kill Something That's Special, And Intimate, About A Recorded Version Of A Song. You Find Out Very Quickly Which Songs You Can Play, And Which Songs You Do Damage To By Playing Them Live.

The Band Is A Living, Breathing Thing. It Grows In The Same Way We Do As Human Beings And If It Doesn't, It Dies. It's Important To Feed The Organism, And One Way Of Doing That Is To Set Musical Challenges That Keep It Alive.

Anything That I'm Doing I'm Writing Specifically For A Particular Project.

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.