I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

Wherever the wings of love take me, that is my flare path and my way.

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.