I'm very lucky, I've got two very loving parents, still very much together, and always been very supportive.
We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour.
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.