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I practise stoicism. Not the stiff-upper-lip, modern stuff, but the ancient Greek philosophy. You have to accept what you can’t change. I try to face forwards all the time. When that doesn’t work, I think about buying a machine gun.
My relationship with drugs.
I would have stopped making records after They Don’t Know.
All the times I was mean to someone.
The summer of 1997. My husband, who is an American, gave up everything to come and live with me in Edinburgh when we were students, and we were so skint but we had so much fun.
To my younger self. I was incredibly self-loathing and self-doubting, and I’m still undoing that damage 30 years later.
When I was about 18, I worked on the chicken counter in a large supermarket, and every morning I had to pierce 64 birds on to industrial skewers to load up the rotisserie. That was very grim.
People who can’t hear other points of view. Absolute certainty always scares me a little.
At a fashion show after-party in New York in 2004, my friend dared me to push her into the pool. I did, and you’ve never heard laughter die so quickly.
My creative freedom. I was the creative director of a large fashion brand when I packed it all in to pursue my writing.
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