Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.

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.