I grew up in the Sydney western suburb of Carlingford and went to school at a private Catholic Ladies College in Parramatta – I'm proud to say they never did succeed in transforming me into a lady or a Catholic. I daydreamed my way through to fourth form, whereby I left school with a D in English. All I was interested in at this time was music, boys, daydreaming and storytelling. My teachers had drummed it through my head that daydreaming was never going to get me anywhere, so I got a job in a retail music store and pursued the love of music – one of life's funny little sidetracks.

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