RG: "I had a bit of an interesting upbringing. Um, my father was an alcoholic and so didn't hold down many jobs. So we were constantly renting places and on the move. And he used to smash up the furniture and smash up the houses a bit, so we'd have to move...."
      "My mother shielded us a lot from it. So I remember her putting us to bed and I, quite often, would hear Dad come home but she'd always shut all the doors leading to the kitchen or the lounge room. So you'd hear the yelling and the shouting and the slapping but you'd never actually see it. Or sometimes she'd wake us up in the middle of the night and bundle us into the car and we'd drive around the block and we'd sleep outside....."