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I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.

I wanted to be a bartender for a bit.

Eventually I became involved with somebody, and I was fired.

I got a job working at a publishing company, Balmur Music, which was a company that Anne Murray was a co-owner in, as a tape copy guy. Eventually, I got fired from that job.

I was not a great bartender, but I did OK. I wasn't great at being efficient behind the bar, but I was pretty great at talking to people. I was a pretty good waiter. It was painstaking to get me to care about the clientele of some of these places I was working at.

I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.

When I was a student, I had a part time job as a barmaid at a dodgy pub in Kent.

Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor.