I Always Had A Fantasy Of Being

I Knew All About Edward Viii's Abdication, George Vi Becoming The King And Having A Stammer, But Nothing About How He Got Rid Of It.

People Tend To Think Of Brisbane As A Sleepy, Sub-topical Place. I Don't Know. It's Like Baltimore Or Something. I Don't Know. You Would Hear The Family Dramas Going On Behind Closed Doors.

But As My Voice Coach Keeps Saying, If We Actually Spoke The Way They Imagine The Elizabethan Voice Might Have Been, We Wouldn't Be Able To Understand It.

I Didn't Know The Green Lantern Comics At All. I Was A Superman Reader.

Within Our Culture, Every School Has A Swimming Pool. We Lived On The Coast. People Swam In The Surf. It's A Very Sporty Nation And At That Particular Time Anyone Who Had An Artistic Bent Was Very Much An Outsider. So If You Liked Reading Or Ideas Or Playing The Piano Then Your Dad Viewed You As A Sissy, Basically.