Musician-cum-actor Clare Bowditch is putting her Logie aspirations on the backburner among myriad other projects, including a new album.
Bowditch was nominated for the coveted award for her role in the hit TV show Offspring but says acting will take a back seat as she works on music and her business mentoring program.
The ARIA Award winner says she could begin work on her eighth album later this year.
"I have so many other things going on, I think my acting's going to have to wait until maybe my 60s," Bowditch told reporters at the launch of Hobart's Festival of Voices.
"I think I'd like to be the oldest-ever Logie award winner."
Bowditch's appearance at the Tasmanian festival will be part of her Winter Secrets tour, renowned for her invitations to strangers in the audience to take part in the show.
She continues to work on her Big Hearted Business project, which teaches creativity to money-makers and vice versa.
And she says the new season of Offspring will be big: "This is the historic one I think."
But it's to recording she will return after the tour, with a bunch of songs already on the way.
"My songs are always started," she said.
"People think you have to be special to write a song or that there's some special, ludicrous way to do it.
"You just start with a thought on a voice recorder and that's it."
Far from shying away from the album-making process in an age of digital anarchy and dubious royalty rates, Bowditch is embracing it.
She says musicians have to welcome new technology because it has always been part of their world.
"We went from wax records to physical records to CDs, there was a mini-disc thrown in there, cassette tapes," she said.
"We've always been progressing.
"So the clue for artists in this day and age making a living is about understanding about the role of diversity in their career, understanding where it is that your fans want to hear from you.
"It's changed, it always changes, we think it's the end of the world, it's not, it's the beginning."
Bowditch was joined by alt-hero Tex Perkins at Thursday's launch at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
Perkins has penned a specially commissioned Hobart-themed song, See For Yourself, for the festival and will perform with long-time collaborator Charlie Owen.
"This is better than The Voice - this The Voices," Perkins said.
A celebration of the human voice, the 10th Festival of Voices, to be headlined by singer/songwriter Ben Lee, runs in Hobart from July 4-13.
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