Lots of people, mainly for being so absent from their lives while I was concentrating on sport. I’d also like to say sorry to my dad’s mum, because, aged four, I told her she was the worst cook in the world.
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View all 209 →My first wife – we were too young.
Canadians are trained to say sorry to almost everything and everyone.
To my mum, for never being able to live up to what she would have liked me to be. She always wanted me to be a little princess and I was never going to be that.
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When my mother was alive. She passed away 14 years ago.
A family holiday – anywhere the kids demand. Last year, I wanted us all to go to Egypt and my daughter said, “No, we’re going to go to Grenada.” So we did.
Doing the bins while working for McDonald’s in west Ealing.
Any song by Donny Hathaway.
When I realised I wasn’t going to make it as a singer-songwriter when I was about 25.
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