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I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

We were rather poor, but we always had what we needed.

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.