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Most screen violence is tedious.

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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

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Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children.

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If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?'

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People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down.

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The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level.

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Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting.

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If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.

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I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Musician

Born: September 22nd, 1957

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