In the sea, somewhere hot. Looking back at people I love on the beach.
When were you happiest?
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Now. Although I am on tour and I will be deliriously happy when that finishes, because I'll be back home.
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Living in Bangor, County Down, because my mum was still alive. She died when I was six.
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On a caravan site on a farm in the Brecon Beacons when I was a kid. I have three sisters and every year we met family friends with kids the same age. We would go to the river and make rope swings and build dens. It was very Enid Blyton.
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