I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old.
I did work in a strip club, but I didn't strip. I danced, and I became very popular.
When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work. I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.
For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.
I was a clubber in the Nineties. I went dancing every week.
When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
When I was younger, I always wanted to be someone in the entertainment industry.
I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I've sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I even trained myself to be a tree surgeon.
I'm not a nightclub person, but you need to have a social life sometimes.
Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started slowing down and trying to find myself. I didn't want to work in nightclubs.