Quotes

When I was a kid the teachers would get me to read my stories out loud in class. And everyone would be laughing and rolling around on the floor. But nobody ever said: 'Hey you can make money doing this!'

I met a guy called Dr Richard Liu, a master of medicine and martial arts. He gave me these Chinese herbs to cook up in tea. They tasted like shit but they worked for me. He also taught me how to be a decent human being, a good friend and a man of your word. For 12 years, I lived like a monk: no meat, no sugar, no sex, no alcohol. Only yoga, vegies, tai chi and meditation.

I'm a very unlucky person. Nothing falls in my lap. I've had to bust my arse for everything. See, I believe in reincarnation. We're like Formula One drivers pulling into the pits for new tyres, then we're off in a new life. But the past carries through with you.

Every Friday [in primary school] I'd act out a script I'd written in class. People started to notice me. Then I got cocky and decided I was going to improvise an interview with the Invisible Man from behind a curtain. It bombed, and my career was over. I didn't write again until my 20s.