You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.

I know I'm not exactly a bombshell, but one has to make the best of what one's got.

But I think that Australians have a sort of independence, and I think that, rightly or wrongly, they tend to make their own decisions as to how a thing has gone. Pioneers are apt to be like that. I think that it's not a bad idea. You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.

I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another.

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what youre doing at any given time.

My voice was obviously God given and I have tried to give of myself honestly.

All singers must be crazy. But we're a nice family of crazy people