Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.
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All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.
My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way.
I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.
It always seems to me that my life would look completely different if I didn't have to take care of the rent.
I am so old-fashioned. I've never lived with a man. I am completely about the independence of paying my own rent.
When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.
I was only 21 when I bought a five-bedroom detached house in Stoke-on-Trent that was way outside of my financial status in life. I did it by borrowing money from my family and the bank, taking out a huge mortgage.
We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
When I was growing up, I was really into 'Rent' and I actually slept on the street in New York all night to get to sit in the first few rows for it.
'Rent' was my first professional job, ever.