When you are writing, you have to go for the jugular, ... You have to write what's true. I really believe in telling the truth. I don't feel any blame, guilt, shame or anger for the things I've lived in my life. In that way I think I am free. If I felt guilty about the things I did, I wouldn't have had the book published.

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