Quotes

The weirdest thing about a house is that it's got locks to keep the baddies out, but they're mostly used to lock ourselves in.

Your love is one in a million, You couldn't buy it at any price. But of the 9.999 hundred thousand other possible loves statistically, some of them would be equally nice.

The Aus­tralian comedy circuit is kind of small, and big in the most inconvenient ways. There aren't many venues, and the ones we have are hundreds of miles apart and separated by mountains. That's probably why so many of us come to the UK.

If you open your mind too much, your brains will fall out.

It's quite hard being right in the face of people who are wrong without sounding like a fuckwit. People go "do you think the vast majority of the world is wrong", well yes. I don't know how to say that nicely, but yes."

Love without evidence is stalking.

[on composing songs for musical theatre] The job isn't writing songs. The job is deciding when to write a song.

[on leftist politics] I would consider myself a left-leaning social progressive, I mean, I'm supposed to be a leftie, right? But I find the way my ostensibly progressive friends act kind of appalling because I don't think it's progressive to call anyone you disagree with a fascist. It's as if they deliberately switch off empathy for someone because they're a race or gender that they view as an oppressor, not an oppressed.

[on wokeness] It is just performing your righteousness to your own people, and I know this because I did it for years, and I didn't realise I did it until I stopped and asked myself: why am I posting about Trump and Brexit, and who am I? Whose mind am I trying to change? I'm an artist. If you're going to tackle it, put it in your freaking work.

[on regrets after releasing 'Come Home (Cardinal Pell)'] Is public shaming the right mechanism for change in a post-social media world? Probably not. I think we should be careful with public shaming as a rule. Why does anyone get to be the moral arbiter? Public shaming cannot be the primary mechanism because it will come for all of us.