Born and raised in Brighton, lived in Denmark and Tenerife before returning to live in Norfolk in 1972, my childhood was unusual to say the least.
 
There was a 42 year gap between my parents who met during their stage careers, father being the show owner, mother one of the dancers - their relationship was temptestuous. My father was the better carer of the two - even though he was 67 when he fathered me - but I remember him doing his best to look after myself and my two sisters. He taught me to be confident and to stand up for myself.
 
I was six when my parents split up, by the time I was 16  we had moved house 18 times, moved country 4 times and attended 14 different schools in three countries. I initially left school at the age of 14 to work for a wood carver on the local market, but when arriving back in the UK I had to go back to school and be a child again.
 
With the genetic makeup of an East End Londoner mixed with a Texan cowboy of Scottish/Mexican ancestry, meant,
I could never be 'normal'.