I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.
My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.
Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old.
Certainly after '21' I was getting the opportunity to make a lot of money.
I think I was pigeonholed pretty early on. And I started late in my career. I was 33.
I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences.
I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.
When I was 22, I realised I wanted to be an inventor.
I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
I won the first contest I ever entered, when I was 6.