First loved, then laid, then paid.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I just wanted to work in music. I didn’t want a real job.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2017 source ↗
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I’d like people to say, “Well, he was a bit odd, he was a bit funny.”
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