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Living in my Diary: Even to this day I feel that my lyrics and music continue to be an expression of a life and a soul in progress, music is the soundtrack. Before I even had any intentions of writing "songs", I used my guitar and the words that came to me as a way of venting my feelings, perhaps as a sort of spontaneous eruption, very fleeting and in the moment and totally for myself. It was in the days when I was an art student and I guess for me the emphasis was very much on the exploration of expression...not the end product and definitely not in a conventional way.

I was listening to a lot of Joni Mitchell and taking in art bands like Talking Heads and later it was Cocteau Twins. I was interested in sounds and ambiences and the voice as a musical instrument, but also I was interested in progressions and emotive power and how that could be expressed moodfully and dynamically. I started keeping a diary of my thoughts, my obsessions and complexes, it was extremely private and painfully so. My music was like an aural extension of that diary, full of confessions and questions meant only for me. A place for processing of "self": a means of evolution and resolution.

I remember there was a definite time when I decided to make a song that I could sing again. I had to teach myself from a tape. A lot of the chords and notes on the guitar were improvisations some unrepeatable, but the main body of the song was there, I could reshape it to be played again.

One summer I made the move back to Perth from my self imposed country retreat and suddenly realised I had this strong desire to perform my songs. A landmark realisation, well this is how I see it in retrospect and putting it into practice denoted a "coming out" as psychologically and socially it was a decision to be more engaged with people.