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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 July 2024 source ↗
Also my most triumphant: 2017 at the Royal Court. Julie Hesmondhalgh reads my psychologist’s report over two hours. Every excruciating intimate word of it. Extreme verbatim theatre. One night only.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2023 source ↗
Being called upon by President Bush to ask him a question at a press conference when I wasn’t there. He called my name … and there was no response!
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 June 2024 source ↗
Falling off the stage and on to the pianist during the opening number in the Mother Goose pantomime at the Citizens theatre in Glasgow.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 July 2025 source ↗
Going to pieces while meeting John Squire, the lead guitarist of the Stone Roses, backstage after a gig. I completely lost the ability to speak. I told him I had the same guitars as he’d just used on stage, and when he asked me which ones, the words completely went out of my head and there was a huge pause, and then his wife tapped his shoulder and he wandered off.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2023 source ↗
Love makes me feel sick. I get sick with worry about my kids. It keeps me up at night.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 July 2024 source ↗
Selfishness and cruelty.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 July 2024 source ↗
Cowardice. There are so many issues that I would like to express opinions about but I’m too scared to stick my head above the parapet because of the social media pile-on.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 July 2024 source ↗
I was born in 1964, in the most working-class area of Liverpool, so the N-word was bandied around a lot.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 July 2024 source ↗
Losing my marbles.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 July 2024 source ↗
Filming a TV show in a field in the snow in February in the Dublin hills for 14 hours; the director said, “We’re not going to get that shot today.”
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 July 2024 source ↗
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