The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing..

I realized I needed to work with other people instead of doing everything myself..

The beauty of the collage technique is that you're using sounds that have never met and were never supposed to meet. You introduce them to each other….

I really think I need to find a home. I don't know if that includes a girlfriend or not, but first I need to find a home, definitely..

I didn't have a home in the world, so I wanted a home in a person. I felt like I had found that, and then it was taken away from me..

You don't get over a broken heart/ You just learn to carry it gracefully..

When I went through the break-up, I really looked for some kind of music, or art or literature that could say, "I've been in the same situation." I c….

I don't have a girlfriend. No, I don't. I haven't had a relationship in years, actually. But yeah, I'm still looking. It's kind of nice to be looking….

I make a living from storytelling - if you're a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a visa, and you are actually doing that….

Sometimes it's not like I write very specific, it's more like I add an atmosphere almost to something that might have been quite awkward in my mind f….

I would never kiss anyone/ Who doesn't burn me like the sun..

I must admit that it seems like my mind really reconstructs some things, and in a very - I just know that it seems like some things are not as I reme….

I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but doing this project and follo….

What's broken can always be fixed What's fixed will always be broken.

I'm not too fond of the typical Australian activities or culture. I'm not into surfing..

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies..

I've always been against recreating or re-recording samples, but I managed to re-record one or two that were just too expensive and it was just ridic….

I started playing bass in my friend's band for some reason. It was just something I did because, well, he asked me if I wanted to play bass and he pl….

Family and friends always need to be bigger than your music career, and in that sense, your music will be bigger because you respect your family and ….

When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were in the crowd listening, that was hard..

When I was between seven and 13, I hated music. I wasn't interested in music at all. I'd tried to listen to it just because all my friends were getti….