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It's not so much that I ever declared: 'I will never have children.' I just never found the right man to settle down with, so it didn't happen.

I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it.

And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.

My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.

I thought I'd be married and a father by 35.

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.

I think I'm lucky that I had kids as spread out as much as I did, 'cause my son, my oldest, was born when I was 21. And my youngest is 15 now. He was born when I was 40, you know?