I think I was always aware of being creative at school in Sydney because that manifested itself in my being in school productions from a very young age.
I remember as a youngster being the baby bear in Goldilocks and the Three Bears, only we had Smarties to eat instead of porridge. By the time I'd reached the age of 12, I'd opened in the chorus of Oklahoma! and it went on from there.
Ironically, though, school at that time in Australia wasn't really geared to the likes of me.
In those days, children were encouraged to be involved in sport although I think it's fair to say a lot of that has since changed.
My family had emigrated to Australia from the UK in 1970, when I was about five. Dad was a civil engineer and heading for a country which was on the cusp of what was to become a big building boom.
It was, naturally, a massive step for my parents. They had three kids aged under five and a fourth on the way but they had decided to try out a new life and in fact it was 18 years before they ever returned to the UK again.