All I wanted to do was write - at the time poems and prose too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way and I didn't need much I was unmarried at the time no children.
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work...
People look at me and they go 'You're white you're smart you must have...
Every day is intense and alive whether it's travel work even down time which there is so little of.