I don't need to be rich anymore; I don't need to be a millionaire.
I wouldn't underestimate the power of writing a letter.
I do some messing around with things, not necessarily about me but about place and people and the things around.
I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing.
I was born in Australia and grew up in the foreign services. I had this kind of trans-Pacific life. I think I was always sort of oriented towards here's Australia and here's America and here's the Pacific.
There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.
When you get immersed in whatever you're writing, the world does suddenly get so filtered through what you're writing. And then of course what you're writing then filters the world right back.
Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.
Which is stronger, politics or love? is like asking, Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling? They are two sides of the same thing.
Everybody is worth everything.
For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.