A few haircuts.
If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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The respelling of my name to Joseph.
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English singer-songwriter and guitarist
I couldn’t do it. I realised recently that all the things that have gone wrong are just as important as all the things that went right.
There are one or two relationships where I’d see the red flags much earlier.
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Not making number one with Matthew And Son because of the Monkees.
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