I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you.

I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.