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My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.

When it came to my childhood - growing up in a single-parent home, often struggling financially - my mother definitely instilled in me and my siblings this strength, this will, to just continue to survive and succeed.

My message has always been about resilience.

It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.

Seeing my mother become very strong and very independent had a huge impact on me.

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.

The stress and turmoil that my father had to go through at a young age to make sure that I didn't have the same trials and tribulations, I couldn't be more grateful.

By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.