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I'll admit it: I'm one of those people who has a Google News alert set for my own name.

I was the first advertising person who people could identify with.

I was initially signed to a German label a few years ago.

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

I'm very, very happy with my recognition/lack of recognition in England in terms of my life. In terms of household name-age. The public's memory is very short, luckily.

Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.

At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.

I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.