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As You Get Older You Don't Want To Just Do The Same Thing, Otherwise There's Not Much Point. I Think It's More Or Less Trying To Write Things That, Perhaps, Say More By Doing Less, Or You're Always Trying To Refine Things, Make Things A Little Simpler, A Little More Essential.

I Had A Very Strange Career. I Mean I Went From Playing To 150,000 People In 1983/84. Three Or Four Years Later I Was Playing To Four People, You Know, In Melbourne. I Thought - Bit Strange, You Know Bit Odd, Bit Erratic.

I Find That, Rather Than The Cities, I'm Very Lucky Because The Audiences That Come And See Me Are Very, Generally Speaking, Truly Kind, So I Have A Great Time Playing Everywhere.

It Strikes Me There's A Bunch Of People In Power Who Have Really Strong Intentions Of Running The World And Adjusting The World To Exactly How They See It.

The Men At Work Thing Is Always There, It's Always Going To Be There. It's Not Something I Consciously Think That Much About Anymore. The Thing That Stays With You Is The Songs, Which Is A Good Thing For Me, Because The Songs Are The Things That Stand The Test Of Time.