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

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.

At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.