Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

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

The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

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.

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

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.