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My wife, because she manages me and sometimes there isn’t time for niceties and we have to talk in a language that isn’t very marriage-like.
I didn’t learn to be intimate with people until I was in my 20s, so I was a very bad friend in my teens. There was a girl I was best friends with at college; I always used to kiss the boys she liked. I’d like to apologise to her.
To my children, because their mum and dad’s relationship failed, and I know that has caused them great sadness.
To kids I bullied in school. I have apologised and I will continue to. To repay those things karmically, I will watch my kids’ hearts like a hawk for signs of hardening or any distortions of empathy that they might develop.
Always flying: we’ve had flights where the engine’s been on fire; where we’ve nose-dived.
Can’t remember.
Kind, funny, moany – I do love a moan.
Persevering with a career that was predicted to last six months and still being here four decades later.
The last few years. There’s a beauty to getting to an age where you really don’t care about stuff that used to bother you.
As the dark-haired bird from Bananarama.
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