The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.

One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.

Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.

Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.

I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.

Don't worry about the future.

I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.