People Think I'm A Miserable Sod But

I'm An Australian, And When I Grew Up Much Of My Influences Were American - Blues Music And Country Music, All That Sort Of Thing.

Most Screen Violence Is Tedious.

Death Looms Large I Guess Because It Should. It's The One Thing That We As Human Beings From Birth Have A Right To. It's The Only Thing We've Really Got, And I Don't Mean To Sound Bleak About This, But It's A Unifying Factor Amongst Us All.

The Way I Take In The World Is By Seeing It; That Is Very Much Evident In The Songs That I Write.

I've Had To Try And Find A Way Over The Years Of Writing Narratively That Doesn't Really Require You To Sit Down And Work Out What The Story's About. You're Brought Into A Sort Of Sequence Of Images That Have That Emotional Resonance, But It's Kind Of Irrelevant What The Actual Story Is. It's Taken Me Maybe 13 Albums Or Something To Work That Out.