I would hope with all my heart that people understand this and see it in the film. And there are also other messages in Happy Feet, like racial and environmental ones, but none of them are so overt. George has made a great story about penguins with a lot of humanity in it and audiences can follow a species we don't know that well.

I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.

I don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?

I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.

Anyone that has a music career and an acting career I think is pretty fantastic.

I've grown environmentally. I'm far more cautious, although I always have been; but more now. And I have grown a lot professionally by working with George Miller.

I can play any instrument if you give me 20 minutes.