I was a virgin. People find that hard to believe, but when you're raised in a church, that was just the way it is.
I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.
Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.