I would obviously be in a good place chemically, the synapses would be content. I would play with my kids. I don’t think I would have time to watch anything by Ingmar Bergman. Bergman would suddenly feel like not that good a director if I only had a few hours.
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Mike Skinner
English rapper
United Kingdom · b. 1978
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Mike Skinner, 30, was born in north London and raised in the Midlands. A rapper and musician, he released his debut single, Has It Come To This?, under the name The Streets, in 2001. His first album, Original Pirate Material, was nominated for the 2002 Mercury Music prize. In 2004, his follow-up, A Grand Don't Come For Free, went to number one and produced the hit single Dry Your Eyes. The fourth Streets album is called Everything Is Borrowed. Skinner is currently touring the UK.
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When I was a child and I got a new toy.
Realising that success wasn't going to keep me happy all my life.
We used to have one of those gat guns that shot pellets. My friend pretty much had the thing at point-blank range to my temple. It popped out and completed its trajectory about a millimetre from my head.
I'd have not sung along with Yellow Submarine in that infant school hall.
I'd like to write my funeral song.
Original Pirate Material.
That I might have to do a normal job.
I cry all the time.
My brother was singing Yellow Submarine on stage with his class. I was singing along with them, showing off cos I knew all the words. The song ended suddenly and I was the only one in the whole hall who sang, 'We ...'
My microphone cost me six grand.
Infinite money might allow me to achieve unbounded creativity.
To my dad for not making it back to Birmingham to see him while I was in London doing The Streets.
People who judge other people's actions on their own thought process.
Bill Drummond, Thomas Bangalter and Jay-Z.
Cleaning toilets in a motorway service station.
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