I'm An Australian, And When I Grew

The Artistic Process Seems To Be Mythologized Quite A Lot Into Something Far Greater Than It Actually Is. It Is Just Hard Labor.

People Often Can't Separate, Or Can't Understand, That To Be Funny Is To Be Serious; It's A Way Of Pulling People In And Not Scaring Them Off. I Think A Lot Of The Funny Stuff, Underneath It, There's A Deep Anxiety Going On.

It's Very Intuitive, The Way That I Approach My Work. I Only Buy Something That Has A Pulse. I May Not Know How I'm Going To Use It, But I Know It Has A Pulse And It Has Multiple Readings - If I Shift It One Way Or Another, It Can Be Read This Way Or It Can Be Read That Way, But Both Readings Are Critical And Very Much Ground The Work.

I Just Want To Leave This World With A Massive Catalog Of Songs.

Love Songs Come In Many Guises And Are Seemingly Written For Many Reasons – As Declarations Or To Wound – I Have Written Songs For All Of These Reasons – But Ultimately The Love Songs Exist To Fill, With Language, The Silence Between Ourselves And God, To Decrease The Distance Between The Temporal And The Divine.