When you’re younger you confuse love with chaos and passion and, as I’ve gotten older, I realise that love is the opposite: it’s peace and it feels safe, like home.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 February 2024 source ↗
What does love feel like?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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Death & what remains
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Something that you can’t describe or put in a box. It changes daily and surprises you when you least expect.
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Like coming home in every sense.
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Euphoria, passion and feeling like nothing else in the world matters.
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View profile →A pair of Balenciaga boots. They were extortionate, but that has to be at least 10 years ago and I still wear them.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 February 2021 source ↗
Martin Scorsese. I was, let’s say, slightly tactile with him during a Q&A; I was more nervous than I’ve been about anything. I kept tapping his knee, it might even have been bruised by the end.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 February 2021 source ↗
As a nice person who always put others before myself. I’d also like my own posthumous tartan.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 February 2021 source ↗
Not having my own chatshow. Yet!
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 February 2021 source ↗
When I was a kid I was a chambermaid in my family’s hotel, and I once found a strap-on that someone had left behind.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 February 2021 source ↗
I had a car crash not long after passing my test, driving mates to a club on a Saturday night. Thankfully, everyone was OK – as was my dad about his car, which was a write-off.
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