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Perimenopausal anxiety, the terrible feeling of impending doom, something awful happening to my children, writing deadlines. Apart from that, I’m quite chilled.
Lack of magnesium.
Anything, because I’m a worrier. Also, if I’m working on a really exciting project, I can be awake like an excited child looking forward to going on holiday.
Creating. When everyone goes to bed and then you have six or seven hours to create peacefully. I’ve become nocturnal. Even on a night when I am not in the studio, I still won’t go to sleep till six in the morning.
Having a massage every week.
My parents: I’m sorry I didn’t spend more time with them.
Cortez The Killer, by Neil Young.
When I was little, I took a bunch of pills out of the cabinet because I was bored, when I was supposed to be taking a nap. I had to have my stomach pumped.
I wouldn’t care so much what people thought.
In kindergarten, riding my bike and making objects out of clay.
Craig David, Björn Ulvaeus, Ricky Wilson, Bryn Terfel, Emma Bunton, Jim Kerr
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