I can’t remember when I read, or was told, that he considered it a good thing to spend a short time every day thinking about death, thus getting used to its inevitability and coming to understand that something inevitable is natural and can’t be too bad, but it was in my early teens, and it struck me as a sensible idea. Of course I didn’t set out to think about death in a regular way every day, but I did think about it quite often, and sure enough, it worked. Why coming to see death’s naturalness should have caused belief in an afterlife to melt away, I am unsure, but it did.

When I decided that Mavis Staples was right – I don’t need to despise myself.

I almost pulled out of my first solo tour because of impostor syndrome.

My mind is changing about being a mum. I got a dog and the way I feel about it is a lot, and I realise maybe I would want to be a mum.

A garden chair from the Chelsea flower show. It was almost the price of a small crappy car.

To be inquisitive.

To have made people healthier and happier.

Time blindness.

That they were loved.

Optimistic, nurturing, enquiring.