I remember sitting on a bench in New York and sobbing and realising that my ambition to be a singer was making me selfish - I was a mother with two children, and I needed a backup plan.

In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal of 1964 was to wrap two lower Manhattan buildings. We never got permission.

The defense came out strong in the first half to make a statement that New York was in for a fight.

There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.

In March 1950, in New York City, I was married to Marietta Soffer. We have three children: Vilhelm, Tomas, and Margrethe.

I was a sort of New York intellectual when I was 16. I wanted to dress like Annie Hall when I was 18.