I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.

The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out.

If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.

I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

My family is broken.

I see myself as an utterly unchanged Perth dude who likes sport as much as I like music and who just likes my family.

There's probably people that go to Harvard and say, 'Listen, I went to Harvard. I got a great education, and I can't find a job, or I didn't become the success that I could have been.' Sure, I mean, you probably have that at every major university.

I love all genres. The only thing I get stymied by is the Family Drama. I don't necessarily know how to approach that.