My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life.
There's challenges in life that present themselves unexpectedly, and if you rise to them, then those challenges will toughen you up.
Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.
I think that if you're on the same team, you should be pushing in the same direction.
I entered music at a poppy level.
I saw the Sex Pistols, and they were terrible.