I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that.
There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated certain people poorly at times. It was because of who I was. It was almost my strength. I came in all business. I tried to find ways to fit in with that demeanor, but it's not easy.

