"It started out of the dead celebrities thing... That track, when he put it on Soundcloud, had a picture of River Phoenix; not necessarily that it had anything to do with him, aside from this sense of reminiscence about the song."

"The Pavement thing was really fun, but it didn’t feel like it was the present for me and I don’t really like to feel as a musician as if I’m just going through the old motions – I wouldn’t want to do that forever."

"He said, ‘Listen, that’s a single. You hear that?’ I was like, ‘No’. And he’s like, ‘Keep listening – that is a single, you hear me?’ And I’m like, ‘Ohhhh, okay’… It didn’t even come out like we intended at all, so it was a funny surprise for me."

"It’s always been a fear of mine that I’ll be so busy on the road that I’ll have to grab some guitar and go to some fucking hotel and try to come up with an album in a week. That would be fun as an experiment, but to do it as the culmination of all of the millions of insane fucking ideas that I have, that would be kind of scary."

"I was really lost there for a while. I let my guard down I think, and thought maybe this is my big break and I can let someone else take care of it all… But ultimately I’m glad to actually be at the helm of my career and the one in charge."

"Winslow is a creature desperately seeking humanity, so we relate to him and ultimately want to be his friend."

"Instead of thinking, ‘I’m going to write about love’, ‘I’m going to write about this’, I was, like, ‘I’m going to write a song where I hit a low A and a high C’, you know what I mean?"

"I didn’t survive particularly well, especially the first year. I had no money and I couldn’t afford a band. Like I thought I could go over there and just play with a band like I had here, and the reality very quickly came upon me that the cost of touring..."

“I take pride in the arts that I am involved in and the different sorts of music that I am trying to make. If that’s what is described as bohemian that maybe that is me.”

“It’s basically everything I find amusing squeezed into an hour. There’s some stuff with a loopstation, some visual stuff, a lot of audience interactions and then stuff with just a microphone. It’s a whole mishmash of all the different facets of me as an entertainer I guess.”

"I was married last year, and I feel like a lot of the songs on the record [are] about the idea of feeling like a person again after not for so long. I feel like that happens when you meet the person that you love; it kind of puts all those pieces in the right place."

Five minutes with Noel Staunton, Brisbane Festival Director.

"I think maybe we’d had a few songs on Pitchfork or something – it’s funny when that happens, you just notice a lot of young dudes [in the crowd] with their arms crossed, checking you out. Like, ‘Is this cool? Should I be here?’ I remember there were a lot of young guys there doing that."

With Kevin Rudd's apology given time to sink in, Archie Roach says, "We do, as a people, have to meet the rest of Australia half-way."

"He’s all, like, 'I’m going to take two bands on the road and I’ll decide on the day who I play with on the night.’ That’s amazing – who does that?” Lanie Lane talks Jack White and songwriting.

It wasn’t this sweet thing, it got more sexy. I feel like my voice has gotten a lot stronger since we recorded the album. I feel like I’m singing twenty times better than I did on the album. I’ve got heaps more power and I’m happier with the tone.”