My idea of a perfect summer holiday is… Anywhere that involves a sarong, crashing surf, fresh fish and a mild case of sunburn.
The song I have on repeat is… Hi-Five by American singer/songwriter Angel Olsen. She is a really unique artist and her album Burn Your Fire For No Witness is something you want to listen to more than once to discover new layers, which I think is the mark of a true artist.
The childhood memory I most treasure is… Riding my bike as fast as I possibly could down long country roads with no particular destination in mind, not expected home
until teatime.
The album that changed my life was… Neil Young’s Harvest, released in 1972. I was 13 and it represented freedom to me. It was the post-hippy era but New Zealand was just embracing those values.
The quality I value the most in my friends is… Loyalty.
My most treasured possession is… My intellect. Possessions don’t mean much to me.
My greatest achievement is… On a personal level, it is family. Professionally, it is yet to come. I never feel extremely satisfied with my own achievements – they are in the past and there’s always something else to do.
The living person I most admire is… I’m not really big on fan clubs. I can admire the woman down at the dairy as much as someone doing something supposedly remarkable in life.
An ideal evening with my best friends is… Very simple – at home, with food and drink and no expectation to do anything, even talk.
If I could invite any six people to a backyard barbecue I would have… Authors Martin Amis and Frank Sargeson, actress Nastassja Kinski, politician David Lange and my great grandparents.
The last book I absolutely adored was… My own. It is called the The March of the Foxgloves and set in 1893 in both London and Tauranga. The main character is a young woman by the name of Frances Woodward, who was a photographer. My great grandparents came from England and settled in Tauranga, so I wanted to pay homage to my ancestors.
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