Graeme Simsion

I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people.

I feel I've done the 10,000 hours you have to do to get good at something.

Interestingly for me, modern rom coms have not always been funny - many of the iconic rom coms are more like light dramas with occasional comedic moments, often coming from secondary character.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

I definitely would never go back to my 20s. The best is yet to come.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.