Michael Smith, Journalist

"It always leaves you with a messy hangover."

"He had an amazing mathematical mind, and the wordplay is very intricate."

He wrote them for "the inspiration that some of these people that are no longer with us have given not only me but thousands and thousands of listeners."

"I just thought, 'What the hell, I'll just send Mark an email.'"

"There's early hillbilly, there's early R&B, there's pop at times in it, alt-country..."

“I don’t know if I’ll wrestle no crocs... I might run from them."

"I spent most of my first trip overseas when I was 19 in Canada, and just to hang out with other musicians there."

"There’s a lot of support from the bigger community, not just the Koori thing, you know?"

"I’d seen a couple of things recently where there were small groups of just men doing these sort of thing and I found it a bit… not right."

"We’re definitely going to enjoy it very much, especially seeing as we’ve got so many wonderful people performing, many of whom are friends of ours."

"What prompted it?” he laughs. “Were we of sound mind and body?"