Collaboration, he says, keeps him from going stale

It's a "point of contention", admits Kelly, smiling. His parenting philosophy issimple: "Praise them and teach them manners and set limits." Kev Carmody has joined Kelly on family camping trips: "He's got that really quiet nature, but the children have got the guidelines:we've finished dinner so we've got to wash up, then we can watch TVor play games. They play a lot of family games." When he's not writing music or recording in his garden shedstudio, Kelly is reading Martin Amis and Ian McEwan of late, as well as popular science writers such as Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins. At 52, he looks slightly cartoonish with his oversizedears and knobbly nose, unruly eyebrows and silvery hair like ironfilings scattered across his scalp. He's "less elastic" than he was "you take longer to recover from strenuous exercise or strenuousdrinking" but he says ageing doesn't worry him. Even if he faces what he calls "the Van Morrison problem". At his age he isn'tautomatically on the radio, he says, but then he never was. "There was a period there in the '80s and '90s when Van Morrison wasputting out one great record after another, every couple of years,but it's like, 'Oh, another great Van Morrison record' becausepop wants the new," says Kelly. He jots down everyday observations in a notebook and recordsmelodic snippets on cassette that may eventually a day or adecade down the track become the kernel of a new song. "I've doneall the dumb things" was a line he overheard, for example, and Darling It Hurts was a bit of graffiti he saw in Darlinghurst. At this point he likens his repertoire to a kit bag:there's a song for every occasion. "I know if I've got to sing at awedding I've got some tools in the kit; if I've got to go and singin a pub I've got this set of tools; if I've got to go and sing ata concert I've got a few others in there," he says. "But you always want to find the next power drill." For Kelly, songwriting is like completing a puzzle: the melodyusually comes first and then it's a case of finding the words tofit. "I still find it fascinating," he says Rosetta Stone . "I don't know how it works but when you manage to write a song it's just the greatestfeeling." Kelly often struggles to explain what his songs are about, sometimes because he's not sure himself. Ideally, they are"songs that don't get used up", he says, that are open tointerpretation. Much like the man who writes them. A year in Kelly town June 2006 Kelly's published song lyrics, Don't Start Me Talking: Lyrics19842004, were added to the VCE curriculum in 2006; heper forms solo shows for more than 1500 students at the Forum Theatre.July Tours the UK. The movie Jindabyne is released,with its soundtrack composed by Kelly and Dan Luscombe.August Plays 17 cities in the United States and Canada.September Works on a new album with his band, the Boon Companions(to be released in July), and a tribute record to Kev Carmody.October Plays at a Timor fundraiser with the Hoodoo Gurus at the Athenaeum Theatre in Melbourne.Also performs at a concert, murundak, celebrating Aboriginal songsof survival at the Arts Centre.November Performs at the Spiegeltent in a cabaret production of hissongs with artists including the Bone Palace Orchestra, Paul Capsisand Eddie Perfect. Appears at the Make Poverty History concert.December Performs his AZ show 100 songs in alphabetical orderover four nights.January Tours regional Australia with the Boon Companions andper forms with the Pretenders and the Church for the Day on the Green concert series in four states.

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