I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.
“Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.”
“There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.”