“I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.”

I think the Internet has a way of coaching you into this state of mind where you think that every step you make needs to completely supersede the last.

And we use it to read album reviews and watch kitten videos… not to put those two things in the same light!

There’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.

But all you can do is ignore the annoying hum of the machine and focus on making art that makes you excited to be alive.

Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.

You start reverting back to that state of mind where you’re having conversations with yourself, and that’s where the weirdest and most honest ideas come from.

Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.

Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.

And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.

Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.

I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project.

The way you phrase it might change, but it will always continue to happen, and there’s something really charming and calming about that.

“It’s not where you got it from, it’s where you take it.” To me, that’s just an integral part of why I even bother making music.

it opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black.

I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.

I find it so funny that for the first time in history, people have access to this great equalizer in the Internet, which grants everyone the same knowledge base.

If you’d been where I’d been… if you’d seen the things I’d seen!… you… you’d be me… Or someone following me around.

because there wasn’t any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.

I came to The United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I’d become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia.

On a clear day, rise and look around you, and you’ll see who you are.

The Internet really does create this dimension around the music that’s always in relation to what else is happening at the moment.

We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.

It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.