In 2001, when my eldest son died.
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I put out a song called Monsters on my last album, about my father’s illness – he had stage four chronic kidney disease – and a handful of people offered him a new kidney. People’s kindness really touched me.
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Watching Long Lost Family on telly.
Oh when was the last time I didn’t?! I’m a crier. I cry. All the time.
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Yesterday: my old dog, Kim, has cancer, and I have to let him die now.
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A lawyer. I did work experience and was sent to the public gallery at the high court. The man in the dock was a 50-year-old accused of buggering a cat on the Metropolitan line. I decided to become a musician instead.
Like nothing else, I guess.
To the British public generally. They know why.
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