A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.

Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.

Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

To be honest, there is a tourists' trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.

Everything I make starts very personally.