But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank. ' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country. ' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud.
When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names. . . Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll. . . something that acknowledged my ambition.