My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

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

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.

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

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

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.