It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

After performing in plays at St Martin's Youth Theatre in South Yarra for a year he gained the attention of director John Duigan who cast him in the 1987 film The Year My Voice Broke the first part of a planned trilogy. He plays the piano by ear. He names Johnny Cash and Lou Reed as two of the artists he admires.