“There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.”

“I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a contract to write and record an album that was too good to pass up. Looking back now I think that was pretty young but, at the time, I was ready to have an adventure.”