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.

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

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

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

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

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.