I Love Being Manipulated By What I

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 Am Not Interested In Anything That Doesn't Have A Genuine Heart To It. You've Got To Have Soul In The Hole. If That Isn't There, I Don't See The Point.

Cynicism And Defensiveness Are Two Things Constantly Levelled At Me. Look, I've Got Time For People, I'm Good Mannered. I Usually Find That When You're Down, Nobody Has A Bloody Minute For You. If I Was A Nobody, You Wouldn't Even Talk To Me. People, In General, Don't Like You Being Upfront And Civil. They Hate You For It. They Label You A Cynic 'cos You're Reasonable.

Most Screen Violence Is Tedious.

I Know When I Sit With My Band Members And We're Playing Back A Song That We've Done, I Know That They're Experiencing It In A Completely Different Way And Hearing Stuff That They're Alerted To Because The Way The Interpret The World Is Through Their Ears. Mine Is Through My Eyes.