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I was out of the house at 16 by my own doing. It forced me to really grow up and take care of myself, and I learned a lot of things that your parents usually teach you, on my own.

I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

I wasn't a child at 13, were you?

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

By the time I was twelve, I had started my own theater company and was doing plays in the backyard and the front yard and all over the neighborhood, so, you know, I was definitely a lifer even back when I was 10.

My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.