I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

At the age of eight I became, in my own eyes at least, a writer.

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.