“Music... music’s important. That’ll be the first thing I’m looking for. Dance moves definitely, various outfits, headdresses, backhanders...”

"The world is such an incredible place, and to see so blatantly the injustices faced by so many of our people is just completely unacceptable to me."

"She told me she was struggling with depression and was really close to ending it, but said that our music was the only reason she didn’t go through with it. After the gig, Regan and I shared the story with the rest of the guys and we all found it really inspiring."

"When I started Rise I was really young, and when I was young, I was into really aggressively offensive, horrible music."

"I guess at the moment a lot of energy’s going into doing this tour and we’re heading back to Canada and we’re doing a bit of a US tour possibly at this stage."

"Making records was this thing I had to learn. For years, I don’t think Jebediah were all that good at recording. Only in the last phase of my life have I started to get the hang of it."

"I'd gone from being this kind of like strange, dark creature from Basildon that everyone avoided like the plague, 'cause they thought I was a bit dodgy, to suddenly becoming very, very famous."

“I guess the thing that you learn as a political comic is that you’re unlikely to have massive mainstream success."

"I wrote some of it overseas, in Copenhagen and Oslo, but the majority was written back in Melbourne within just a couple of months before getting into the studio."

“I actually feel often quite unconfident to speak about any issue that I might have a personal view on."

“Most of my career has been on vinyl, so I’m definitely more comfortable with it, it’s more of what I’m about. It’s kind of a nostalgia show for all those people that were around at that time."

"We’ve operated this way for 12 years; it’s not something we can change, so it’s not worth complaining about. We wouldn’t really have it any other way.”

"I was fascinated by how greed can change a person mentally and emotionally, which is what happens with Thorin as our story progresses."

“I’m sticking to the original [demo] ideas very closely and being very focused and thorough with each part, just making sure I nail each part."

“I’m trying to be cool. I’ve been trying since 1988 to be cool, but apparently staging an all-cat musical of the hit TV show All Saints with the neighbourhood cats is not cool."

“I guess if I was a teenager it would be like me writing heaps of emo poetry and Penguin calling and saying, ‘Hey we would like to publish it!’”

"When your friends all get drunk and start “quoting” the goats-screaming like-humans video at each other it quickly devolves into a room full of people cycling through screeching in each other’s faces and then breaking into hysterical laughter."

"I am lucky that I can make a sort of a living teaching actors and love it. I would have loved to dance, but that wasn’t really the way to go for a kid from Bondi during the ‘60s, well not in my family anyway."

“I knew from the very beginning that it wasn’t going to be just drum’n’bass. That said, I wasn’t really sure what other styles I’d have on it, to be honest."

“It’s kind of progressive, some of the stuff is more progressive than Mania, yet very groovy, some of the stuff like Gravity X.”

"It was a brain injury, but I somehow, as stupid as it sounds, knew it would get better, and then after a few weeks I started playing guitar, scales and that… You know, I couldn’t even hold a fork to feed myself."

“In building on the previous EP [Cards On The Table], which was stripped back and acoustic, I’d been writing these songs and felt it would be nice to build on the sound, incorporate the band aspect but still keep the core acoustic.”

“The third record was kind of meant to be – I had to get it out of my system and it was very cathartic."

“When you think about it that way, you know, it is a job. To write the songs is one thing, but then to have all of them in a collection released by a label, you owe that label."

“The best gigs I’ve ever done in any art-form have been with this band – there’s so much more connection with the audience than anything I’ve ever done."