It's bleak behind the Iron Curtain, although they do have the strongest vodka I've ever had in my life.
When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.
I was six when the war started. It was terrible. My house was destroyed, so we went to live with my grandparents. The whole family was there, maybe 15 people all staying in an apartment about 35m square. It was very hard.
Flint is a very tough place to live. The environment is definitely a different type of environment than anywhere else in the country, I feel like.
There was a time when I just didn't have the opportunities, which meant going without things in my life - whether it was clothes, or food, or money - and living a really bare-bones life.
Life there was hard and it made people hard.
I can't think of anybody worse to live with.
I know that living with me was not a bowl of cherries.
... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking a tightrope.
