The life lesson Peter Garrett wishes more people knew

"So, I could hear this from my bedroom, and then I got to know it and understand it."The young Garrett was unaware it was a protest song "It's great to yarn about it, but I don't spend much time meditating on the past.Even when performing on the stage of Sydney's Hordern Pavilion at this year's APRA Awards in tribute to Hirst, Garrett knew he had to get the job done, lest the gravity of the situation overwhelm him."The legacy of the band, in terms of my experience of it, it takes up so much space in how I think and feel," he says."If you start to get too introspective about it, or if you're always looking in the rear-vision mirror, or even assessing what it is, you're buggered."Garrett's performance that night was not born from protest, but from celebration