There's A Fine Line Between Character Building

I Tried Talking To Jesus, But He Just Put Me On Hold.

I Like To Let The Songs Speak So That They Can Go Through Some Kind Of Rebirth As You Play Them.

I Suppose Ever Since I Was About 14, I Remember Listening To "sgt. Pepper's," And I Remember Thinking, "how Do You Possibly Write Songs Like That?" I Remember Starting To Try And Write Songs Around That Age, But Just Sitting Around With An Acoustic Guitar, And Try To Come Up With Ideas For Songs, And That's Just What I've Done Ever Since. I Just Never Really Stopped Doing That, I Suppose.

I Had A Very Strange Career. I Mean I Went From Playing To 150,000 People In 1983/84. Three Or Four Years Later I Was Playing To Four People, You Know, In Melbourne. I Thought - Bit Strange, You Know Bit Odd, Bit Erratic.

As You Get Older You Don't Want To Just Do The Same Thing, Otherwise There's Not Much Point. I Think It's More Or Less Trying To Write Things That, Perhaps, Say More By Doing Less, Or You're Always Trying To Refine Things, Make Things A Little Simpler, A Little More Essential.