I'm An Australian, And When I Grew

I Get Criticized For A Lot Of What I Write About, But As Far As I'm Concerned I'm Actually Standing Up And Having A Look At What Goes On In The Minds Of Men, And I Have The Authority To Talk About It Because I'm A Man.

I'm Not Saying This In A Condescending Kind Of Way, But It's Quite Simple: The Making Of America Was A Heroic Thing. Australia Has A Much Murkier, Much More Complex View Of Its History. It's Just Full Of All These Open Wounds We Don't Really Know What To Do With.

I'm Always Sort Of Looking For Projects That I Can Sort Of Put Out Into The World, Into The Public Sphere, And To Somehow Cause An Effect. I Want To Be Able To Create Projects That Sort Of Are Going To Make People Think And Think In This Sort Of Magical, Sort Of Fantastical Way.

I Know When I Sit With My Band Members And We're Playing Back A Song That We've Done, I Know That They're Experiencing It In A Completely Different Way And Hearing Stuff That They're Alerted To Because The Way The Interpret The World Is Through Their Ears. Mine Is Through My Eyes.

At The End, We're Kind Of Observers - Creative People, I Mean. I Feel Like An Observer, And I'm Pretty Much Able To Step Out Of Things And See How Things Are Playing Out.