English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.

From a very early age, I wanted to fly aeroplanes.

I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.

I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!

I've always hated authority from an early age. And authority have always hated me.