Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.
It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

