None. I’m not ashamed. I’m dyslexic so I don’t read a lot of books.
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Because it’s in one of my songs, War and Peace.
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All of them. I’m not someone who can sit down and read – I wish I could.
Nineteen Eighty-Four. I always meant to read it before 1984, and once 1984 had passed I didn’t see the point.
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Losing the people that I love.
Two days ago. To move to New York.
A bushel of self-confidence.
The Covid years. My life is diminished since then. I lost my brother. My children lost some social expression, and we are still recovering from that.
The years of self-doubt.
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