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To my father, for the time that was lost when we weren’t getting along. We were able to reconcile a few months before he passed away five years ago.
My ex-wife, because I should have been a better man.
Most of the people I dated between 23 and 33. It feels crazy to me that I ever thought that I could be anyone’s girlfriend before I figured out the things I’ve now figured out.
Dick Cheney for hating him for being one of the most destructive people on Earth.
If my children could change their own nappies.
A lawyer. I did work experience and was sent to the public gallery at the high court. The man in the dock was a 50-year-old accused of buggering a cat on the Metropolitan line. I decided to become a musician instead.
I’m sure it’s a cliché but I’d like to see as many of my friends and family as possible in that day. So I’d have my family around, I’d have my friends around, just to clock in with them.
I put out a song called Monsters on my last album, about my father’s illness – he had stage four chronic kidney disease – and a handful of people offered him a new kidney. People’s kindness really touched me.
Like nothing else, I guess.
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