The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

I went to England in the '70s and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.

Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know or to admit the change and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.