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I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

I mean, obviously, a lot of people know me around the world. Kids know me.

By the time I was 10 or 13, I'd learned the world capitals.

I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.

I didn't go to school, because I never stayed anywhere long enough, so I was completely closed off from the outside world. I had no idea about anything.

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

I was one of those kids who always thought that we should know how the world works around us.

I'm from Canada, and I think, like everyone growing up anywhere else in the world, you are very aware of America - it sort of looms large in its legend, and so did Detroit.