I don’t think I’d change anything: the bad forms you more than the good.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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I don’t think I’d change anything: the bad forms you more than the good.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 November 2020 source ↗
I wouldn’t care so much what people thought.
I had my heart broken a lot in my teens, but I'm not sure I'd change it.
I would become fitter younger. Because I would have been hotter younger!
Nothing – haven’t you heard of the butterfly effect? I could find myself still collecting glasses in Charnock Richard while Donald Sutherland would be enjoying my life.
I had a cafeteria job, serving food, and some people were really nasty. There was a stack of nice, cool plates, and a stack of hotter plates that had just come out of the kitchen. So, if a person was an arsehole, I’d hand them a hot plate with a smile and watch them deal with it.
That my baseball team, Baltimore Orioles, is always in the basement.
Amazing Grace, on bagpipes.
My electric car: it’s a hybrid Cadillac.
Right after 9/11, Kenny and I went to perform for the troops in Pakistan and Uzbekistan. As we were flying in, an electronic voice went off: “Warning: missile launch! Warning: missile launch!” The Taliban had fired a rocket at us. I was waiting to see the back of the plane blow up, but it didn’t and we landed.
My teenage years in the Runaways: I was still naive enough to think good things about the world and life and people, and I was having fun playing rock’n’roll around the world, living the dream.
George Michael, Kevin Rowland, Mandy Patinkin, Michael Kiwanuka, Courtney Pine, Shaznay Lewis
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