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“We’re all alike, but not alike, if you get what I mean; there are enough similarities there that means we gel."

“I love the Toff. We played there not long ago. It’s probably my favourite venue in Melbourne: great sound, great people to deal with and there just always seems to be a great vibe around the place."

"It’s a bit more rocky I reckon but so far, it’s not too far from the first record – I just think it’ll be a bit more developed and mature."

“I didn’t have a label or anything, I was just purely making an album that, personally, I really wanted to hear."

“I think a lot of the emotions we sing about in the songs can be quite general; I feel like we have been experiencing everything we sing about on the album and we believe most other people of our age have to."

"Whoever said that music should ever be free? Picasso certainly didn’t, Jimi Hendrix certainly didn’t, Kurt Cobain didn’t, Rage Against The Machine – they still sold their records."

"We have a long way to go and there are no guarantees with our licensing authorities, but I am confident we’ll get it over the line.”

"This was not just angry like the Pistols or tough like 'Dacca, it was the musical equivalent of the colour black and I… fucking….loved it."

"As has been widely written about lately, to punk music, Thatcher was the gift that kept on giving."

“From the therapy sessions I had a load of new ideas about songs. So many artists have exposed their personal life in song, so I thought, why not tell the world what I’ve been up to?”

“In the music industry sense, I kind of own ANZAC Day like Mark Seymour owns Grand Final Day. People ring me up from all over the country asking me to perform on ANZAC Day, and I just wish there were a hundred of me.”

"It’s kind of about my own relationship with my own creative process; the inner struggles that you go through being a creative artist. Like, for me, my mind is my own worst enemy; that whole concept of suffering for your own art.”