In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.

The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel Kilcher, Norah Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbour and playing in the beautiful parks.

If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!

I grew up listening to most of my parents' music, like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

Singing is and always will be a part of my life.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

I'm a perfectionist about being on time.

I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.

Your character is a blueprint of who you are. People access and determine your pre-qualifications, assents and mode of thinking through the character you cough out.

Let's face it. you become a deeper person amidst adversity. You become a more perceptive, strong, resilient person when life is not handed to you on a silver platter held by a butler.

Give me neither poverty nor riches feed me with food convenient for me.

I found that whatever interested me in life, I could pretty much pick up the phone, call somebody, and all of a sudden be in the middle of it.

Boundaries are a part of self-care. They are healthy, normal and necessary

I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)

Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang Tzu, who dreamed I was a butterfly, or whether I am a butterfly dreaming that I am Chuang Tzu.