Jeremy Deller
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Jüngling (1917) by Erich Heckel.
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I bought myself a diamond pinky ring for two million dollars.
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Michael Stipe
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A page from Jim Morrison’s final notebook – I bought it as a birthday gift for a friend.
Warwick Davis
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Our campervan. It’s fully kitted out, sleeps four and lowers down, so we can get in and out easily.
Noel Clarke
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I don’t really flash money about.
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When I was young and carefree, before I realised what the obstacles were that we face as black people. I was raised in a beautiful home with incredible parents. They allowed me to enjoy what it was to be a child.
To my father, for the time that was lost when we weren’t getting along. We were able to reconcile a few months before he passed away five years ago.
To be in a position to empower my entire family with generational wealth.
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.
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