You can get bored up there on stage, night after night. But it's an open forum where you can get away with almost anything, so you might as well do it.

I'm not in the business of suffering.

I always forget about some of the things I've done, because you do 'em, and sometimes they don't come out, and... most of it's almost like daily chores or something. You check it off your list, and then it's gone.

I write lyrics based on music, on a musical flow, and what sounds good at the time.

Being able to have a home studio is the greatest thing ever.

I'm not some young tough guy trying to prove a point anymore.

Hearing other peoples' interpretations of your lyrics, to me, is just a total kick in the pants. Half the time, they're better.

Relationships are complicated - put it that way, okay?

Legacy is something you talk about when you're dead - and I'm not dead yet.

There has to be an element of danger, or at least an element of intrigue, for a band to be interesting.

To me, the stage is like the free zone. That's what makes it exhilarating. For whatever reason, there's this weird little square where it's kind of a romper room for adults.

I've had at least a couple botched surgeries.

Movies were, to me, like a way out. It was an escape valve. I remember having my parents drop me off at movies all the time.

I grew up in a really small town.

The creative process for a musician is very different than for a filmmaker. I have an idea, and I can pretty much execute it.

In a way, sometimes collaborating is more difficult because you have to listen.

Forgive me, but Wolfmother, you suck!

Some artists can work under one guise, whether it's a name or a band or doing film soundtracks, put all of their ideas in one pot and move on. Me, I need to compartmentalize.

I really don't want to put more than a couple of records out a year, and I think that makes sense - on an artistic level, but also for my label.

Not all ideas are like a twinkling star in the sky, and you get inspired to make a record the next day.

A lot of people assume that musicians are comrades by nature. It's cutthroat like anything else.

I'm a little tired of travelling the world, jaded as that may sound.

When you come into a pre-existing situation, you gotta have your own thing going. You gotta be really strong about it, and you gotta look at the older material in an aggressive way - 'I'm gonna make this mine somehow.' You need to put your imprint on the situation that you're in.

I think you create your own boundaries, and you work within them.