Marina Abramović
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To myself. I am my harshest critic.
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To Mark Smith, a boy we bullied at primary school. I’ve always felt terrible about it.
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Scott Mills
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Katy Perry. I hired a Russell Brand lookalike as a joke for the radio, and she thought it was actually him. When she realised it wasn’t, she burst into tears. She was still married to him, but I didn’t take into account that there were things going on that we didn’t know.
Every woman I dated before I met my wife, because I think I convinced too many people that they were the one, and they were not the one.
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My singing career.
Last year. I was with my wife and all my kids in northern California, driving an RV. I remember thinking that life couldn’t possibly get any better.
I wanted to race cars.
Getting all four kids to school in the morning.
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