Stephen A Russell, Journalist

"It's hard for me to believe that 50% of Australians are bad people because this is a country that welcomed me with such open arms."

"They were boring, bland, classical hymns and I brought them alive by adding gospel music, rock and roll, and folk."

"I absolutely adore my mother, but mostly for her comedy value."

"I'm looking at who has the right to offend and who has the right to be offended."

"I fell in love with circus and said to my parents, 'that's what I want to do with my life.'"

"If we didn't have a festival they just wouldn't get played and these filmmakers wouldn't continue making brilliant films."

"We're trying to explore lines, colour and form this year."

"You can't make them pay good money to sit there and have shit thrown at them."

"It did actually convince me to freeze my sperm, so now I'm officially a sperm donor."

The Indian-Australian duo are celebrating the "messy greyness" of multicultural Australia

"If you don't think swear words are funny, you're dead inside."