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"I’d watched my dad play music to me for a few years growing up but he never let me touch his guitar, but then, at age 12, my parents divorced and I don’t know why but he left his guitar behind when he left home."

“There’s some incredible computer animation out there – it blows me away when I see it – and I’m just very interested in working with that medium as well, with the music and songwriting and what the songs mean and how it locates and relates to the earth, and the earth as Mother."

“One day, coming home from college, I found some telephone wires along the side of the road, and some tubes. I picked them up, and when I got home hooked up the tubes to the wires, and it made a hum."

“With the new album, it’s a bit more… I don’t want to say complex but we have different parts."

"I won’t say that there aren’t rock’n’roll songs or other electronic music that get me excited, but when I hear an acoustic instrument being played well, there’s just something about that – I connect with that much deeper.”

“I could stand on the stage, alone – without anybody or anything – and tell the story and it would be effective and entertaining and nobody would complain."

“Australia won’t be the same when The Blind Boys are back in town.”

"It’s equal parts excitement and nerves that comes with doing our biggest tour – but it’s cool and exciting and fun."