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In high school, I was kind of a loner because I had moved to a new school.

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.

I was a loner in high school. I keep to myself, but I love life.

I was really bored and unhappy in school, and I used to act out and do horrible things.

I just absolutely, totally hated school. It was like a prison to me. I just could not stand that structured, absolute disciplined way of having to deal with life.

When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.

I was dyslexic and uneducated and left school at 14. I grew up in Finsbury Park, which was a pretty bad place where you had to fight and be beaten. It was just a constant roundabout of violence.

I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.

I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.