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Like a cosy cloud of softness coupled with an orthopaedic mattress underneath.
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The most intensive and beautiful golden sunlight. It’s the strongest force in the universe.
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Climate change. That is the single most important calamity in the making that I obsess over.
By the sea. I would like to be on the beach in Kerala, I would like to be on the beach at Yellowcraigs in Scotland, and then at a really good table, drinking really good wine, eating delicious food, and discussing things I am passionate about with people that I am passionate about.
Myself. I have never been harder on anyone else.
It was such a beautiful summer’s night and I had pink hair and my band was doing really well and my mum was there, my mum was still alive. It was very magical for me and to get the honour of my city, to be blessed by their respect, it was delicious.
Dying of the same awful disease that took my mother – a particularly aggressive form of dementia called Pick’s disease.
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