Everyone said to me growing up, "You're like an American. You have to go to America. That's your spiritual home."
Toby YoungI was every Londoner's stereotypical idea of a brash, vulgar American. When I got here, it turned out that London was the Wild West, and New York was like London at the height of the Victorian era, in which everyone was far more obsessed with table manners and status-climbing than they are in London. In London, everyone was just crawling over this blizzard of cocaine. Here, if you have more than a glass of wine with your meal, people refer you to Alcoholics Anonymous.
Toby YoungI expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.
Toby Young