Starting with radio, starting with television, we got used to this idea of stuff being free as long as you just watch a few ads.
I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.
My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.
When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.
I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.
I know so many songs. I'm like a walking karaoke torture machine.
I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.
If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance; His Bible speaks of nothing but fearful punishments. I never loved Him! I could never even believe that anyone did love Him sincerely. He is devoid of pity. . . . He will punish me in some abominable manner.
Our most modern sin is that we do not love the world enough. We have exiled the holy from this realm so we can turn its mountains into money.
One of my theories about why we've been cranky is Australians have been forced to focus on politics or party politics a little bit more than they normally would.
It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.