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As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.

I grew up as an only child. My parents weren't great conversationalists. We had a quiet house. I'm not very verbal.

And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.

I was very studious.

I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.

I was the shyest kid. I'd never speak, only if I had to. Honestly.

I was studious and bookish. Not just as a child but also as a teenager. I took myself too seriously.

I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.

I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class - I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.