Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.