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I don't want music to be a museum.
Summer is always best through a window.
There's so much nostalgia for music from the past.
I think, in a world of mouths, I want to be an ear.
I would cut off my right arm to be someone's lover.
I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.
I like short beards. Not a big fan of the bigger beards.
It's time to find someplace where I feel like it's home.
I would never kiss anyone/ Who doesn't burn me like the sun.
Australia's beautiful, but I'm not too into Australian culture.
I wouldn't write about something that I haven't experienced myself.
What's broken can always be fixed What's fixed will always be broken
What I can't fit into my suitcase is probably something I don't need.
It always feel like people are doing more grown-up things than you are.
I found a favorite chord, which is B flat 7 - that's my favorite chord.
You don't get over a broken heart/ You just learn to carry it gracefully.
Any band that doesn't have a sense of humor has a little bit of a problem.
Vocal arrangements are something I'm working a lot with for the new songs.
I think a lot of my anxieties and fears are things that are very abstract.
The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing.
I became paranoid for a long time: I thought that people were out to harm me.
Older men in my family - back to my grandpa - were basically completely bald.
I love a lot of old disco because it's aerodynamic, smooth, and very seductive.
I feel like it's my responsibility not to leave the listener in a pool of dread.
I realized I needed to work with other people instead of doing everything myself.
One of the nice things about songwriting is you can be inspired by absolutely anything.
I'm not too fond of the typical Australian activities or culture. I'm not into surfing.
A lot of my songs are written prophetically: I write something, and then I make it happen.
I would love to hear Marilyn Manson's fans or something, what their stories would be like.
If there's two things I will never do, it would be grow a beard and pick up the uke again.
If you come to the conclusion that there is no conclusion, well, that's a conclusion, too.
I start writing songs first as an entertainer, and I like funny stories that wrap up with dignity.
Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.
Some very silly songs can have an almost melancholy feeling when you put it in a different perspective.
I kind of like polishing the songs that I'm working on. I'm really working hard on some specific songs.
Making albums is a very lonely process sometimes. Sitting around working on songs, feeling the pressure.
The whole thing with playing on a stage with mics and all that has always been kind of uncomfortable to me.
Really, to me, a really good evening would be a comedian, followed by a band, followed by a really good DJ.
'Postcards' was just a way of slapping myself in the face and saying, 'You can do anything! Just go for it!'
It's good to let go of control. That's probably something all artists and song writers will say at some point.
I think to find an escape route out of a music industry that is becoming more and more focused on making money.
I think there are definitely a lot of subjects I don't share with people, but I'm not sure where that border is.
I feel like the few times in my life when I really felt like I love my own story is when I've been the happiest.
I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.
I struggled with a lot of doubts around my songwriting and around what I was and what my purpose and mission were.
I think it's healthy that people that work in a creative field look for inspiration in a different creative field.
Nirvana was a band that led you somewhere, as opposed to all the grunge bands that began and ended with themselves.
I wanted the album to be aerodynamic, like an airplane taking off from a runway - all of a sudden you're in the air.
I need to write a sitcom, but something with warmth, not one where the dad comes home and he's treated like an idiot.
I find it quite hard to connect with the songs where I portray myself as this clumsy, adorable, love-struck man-child.