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There was a lot of pressure on me when I was 18, 19 to move to America. I went out for a couple of weeks and hated it. I thought I could go out my mind. You could really see how people could go off the rails.

I have no desire to go back to San Francisco.

If I ever had to emigrate, I would probably go to America.

If I were still twenty years old, I would really move to America.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America.

I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than 24 hours - but I knew I would never get inside there. And 'there' not being America necessarily, but that harmonious mode of living that some people are lucky enough to have in this country.