If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

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.

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

The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

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.