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I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

I basically was a precocious little kid.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television.

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.

I knew what I wanted to do even when I was a little girl.

I learnt how to make candles when I was a kid. My mom used to make them. Then, when I broke my leg once and couldn't really move around, I started playing around with it... putting the scent inside and dried flowers, and that's it.

The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.