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I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better.

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all.

During my teen years, I was real emotional. I could be really up or down.

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.

I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.

I remember feeling all right with myself until age 13. Then, I was getting off the bus one day and this guy called me Miss Piggy. That was the first time I ever really felt like I wasn't okay.

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

That's kind of how I am - a roller coaster of emotions.