"I am only interested in people who like it, someone who puts every
fiver of their person into the music. Everything else comes a poor second,
there's a bunch of people who will always be making music, no matter how
they fit in the scheme of the Top 20. It's not for money, not for placings
in the chart, it's because they can't do anything else and they don't care
about anything else."
"It's essential to have people of a similar disposition around you.
I know a few artists, people like Devin Townsend and Willie [Dowling -
ex-Honeycrack] and if you talk to people like that you don't feel so alone.
It's not enough to just talk to someone, it's talking to someone who understands."
"I can't thing of an artist who impresses me as much as Devin. When
I heard the B-sides to 'Christeen' I was sitting
there completely open-mouthed, and it's nice as he says the same things
about me. We have the same level of respect for each other. It's not some
bonzo respect, it's a bit deeper than that. It's about getting your feelings
out in your music, like a personal exorcism. Unless someone is feeling
music with the same vibrancy, then you don't really understand why you
get so pissed off and frustrated at the state of music at the moment, and
Devin is the last of a dying breed.
People who live for the music and feel it deeper than your average
hit-maker."