Cats.
The Guardian, Interview, The Guardian, 30 November 2012 source ↗
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What is your greatest fear?Originally asked
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Bob Dylan
Songwriter and musician; Nobel laureate in Literature, 2016
I don't know any songwriter like that. I'm unaware of the current debate about separating the art from the artist. It's news to me. Maybe it's an academic thing.
A.J. Jacobs
Journalist and author of The Year of Living Biblically
Saying something dumb on Twitter and getting yelled at by thousands of strangers. Also, catastrophic climate change.
Leelee Kimmel
American actress and artist
That was scary because I am afraid of guns.
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I like to swim, I like to play with my dogs and I love to eat – but I have to start watching that because my suits are getting too small.
I always say: "They throw me on stage and they throw me off!" I get so carried away, I carry on singing … once I played for two and a half hours. I always say to my guy, please let me know I gotta get off 15 minutes before, because I hate to rush. Give me a flashlight or something. Because I never want to get into a place where they say: "He wouldn't come off!"
I always say: "They throw me on stage and they throw me off!" I get so carried away, I carry on singing … once I played for two and a half hours. I always say to my guy, please let me know I gotta get off 15 minutes before, because I hate to rush. Give me a flashlight or something. Because I never want to get into a place where they say: "He wouldn't come off!"
I can sing my ass off, better than I could before.
They always said, "You can sing your way out of the ghetto."
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