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Creating. When everyone goes to bed and then you have six or seven hours to create peacefully. I’ve become nocturnal. Even on a night when I am not in the studio, I still won’t go to sleep till six in the morning.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 December 2020 source ↗
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