My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years.

I definitely fell in love with 'Dracula' when I was 13. I found it so fascinating and so dark and romantic.

I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.

Nobody thought a white girl should learn to cook in South Africa. I went to drama school. My mother was an actress, so I thought I'd be an actress.

But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools.

Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world. That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.

Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.