The World Brought Me To My Knees,

It Feels Good, You Know. It Feels Like You're Out There, You Know, Doin' Your Own Thing, Know What I'm Sayin'? It's Like, People Can't Really Compare It To Anything, And That Kinda Feels Good. It Opens Me Up To A Lot Of Different Arenas, A Lot Of Different Type Of Situations, You Know Like Tony Hawk Will Call. You Know What I'm Sayin'? I Can Just Image If My Songs Was About Shootin' Up, And Like Sellin' Cocaine, I Doubt Tony Hawk Would Be Callin' You Know?

With Australian Audiences, There's A Certain Level Of Education - As Far As How Much Access And Exposure They Have To Music From Various Genres. So When You Do 'big Day Out' And There Are All These Different Musical Acts, You See The Same People In Your Crowd That Were There For A Completely Different Artist.

I Saw The Dudes Who Would Be The Gangsta, Big-time Guys On The Block, But Would Also Be Dedicated Fathers. It Was Kind Of Weird To See That Dual Story That Everybody Has.

I Don't Mind Payin' For The Police And For Streets And Sanitation, Or Road Work, Bridges, Trains, Food Subsidies And Welfare. But I Don't Wanna Pay For Bombs To Fight Proxy Wars In The Middle Of Nowhere Against Enemies In The Night.

I Have Yet To See Someone Attack Obama Over His Report Card. A Lot Of People I Talk To From Both Sides Of The Fence Are Like, 'well, What About This Economy? What About These Incidents?' There Are Still No Answers Except Time, But Time Is The Answer For Everything.