'so often it’s the case that when two people get together to create, if they're on a similar wavelength, the results are much greater than they would have been otherwise. in essence, a great conversation is an example of collaboration, so is parenting..car-pooling even. collaboration is a word which is bandied around a lot, but if you have a look at your own life, i’m sure you’ll see loads of examples of where it makes all the difference'
- Dumbo Feather Magazine
'i wanted to write modern love songs, sing all kinds of love – old love, young love, complicated love, happy love, sad love, carnal love, yearning love, hanging-on love, hanging-in love, out-of-control love, love gone wrong, love pretty right, love between friends, love among families, love of hime, love of the unknown, love of clan, love of enemies, love of drinking, love of oblivion, love of pain.
it seemed to me that any love story between a man and a women (or boy and girl) always had more than two people involved. in real life there were exes, rivals, children, stepchildren, sibligns parents, in-laws, friends. my songs began to get crowded.'
– p143
'Other Reasons to Live (Besides the Ones You Love):
Act Three of Der Rosenkavalier / Bondi Beach / Cezanne’s watercolours / Elvis, twenty years old, singing ‘Blue Moon’ / kicking the football in dying autumn light / 'Ode to Nightingale’ / rain on the roof / roast lamb with rosemary and garlic / the first beer after hard work'
– p50
'Nonna gave me a great piece of advice. she told me to breathe in and out slowly and deeply if i was nervous before going onstage. i use this all of the time. so far my voice was held up well, though i still have a ways to go yet. Nonna was knocking ‘em dead in the nursing home with ‘Ave Maria’ in her nineties. she was practically running the place by then. i suppose one shouldn’t say ‘knocking ‘em dead in the nursing home’. but that just about sums it up.
strange to say, over the years i’ve become a bit of a crooner.'
– p253, Paul Kelly - How to Make Gravy
- Dumbo Feather Magazine
'i wanted to write modern love songs, sing all kinds of love – old love, young love, complicated love, happy love, sad love, carnal love, yearning love, hanging-on love, hanging-in love, out-of-control love, love gone wrong, love pretty right, love between friends, love among families, love of hime, love of the unknown, love of clan, love of enemies, love of drinking, love of oblivion, love of pain.
it seemed to me that any love story between a man and a women (or boy and girl) always had more than two people involved. in real life there were exes, rivals, children, stepchildren, sibligns parents, in-laws, friends. my songs began to get crowded.'
– p143
'Other Reasons to Live (Besides the Ones You Love):
Act Three of Der Rosenkavalier / Bondi Beach / Cezanne’s watercolours / Elvis, twenty years old, singing ‘Blue Moon’ / kicking the football in dying autumn light / 'Ode to Nightingale’ / rain on the roof / roast lamb with rosemary and garlic / the first beer after hard work'
– p50
'Nonna gave me a great piece of advice. she told me to breathe in and out slowly and deeply if i was nervous before going onstage. i use this all of the time. so far my voice was held up well, though i still have a ways to go yet. Nonna was knocking ‘em dead in the nursing home with ‘Ave Maria’ in her nineties. she was practically running the place by then. i suppose one shouldn’t say ‘knocking ‘em dead in the nursing home’. but that just about sums it up.
strange to say, over the years i’ve become a bit of a crooner.'
– p253, Paul Kelly - How to Make Gravy
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