I was born in the house I still live in and raised with three brothers. One of them tragically died when he was 21 and I was 17, and that informed a lot of my life. My father was an alcoholic, and he absconded for a number of years when I was quite young. I had an amazing mother. She was this ‘you can do anything’ type of mother.
I wrote songs when I was a kid. I had my guitar and my piano and I loved all that. I was on a TV show called Youngline singing one of them when I was 12 or 13, which was called ‘Children’. It was all about children needing love and all the wars in the world. I’m sure the footage is somewhere.