The question
What most recently moved you to tears?Originally asked
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The FA Cup final, watching Crystal Palace win.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 July 2025 source ↗
At a function for the True Colors Fund, where formerly homeless gay and transgender kids were telling their stories. It was heartbreaking.
Yesterday, talking about my brother, who passed away.
I put out a song called Monsters on my last album, about my father’s illness – he had stage four chronic kidney disease – and a handful of people offered him a new kidney. People’s kindness really touched me.
Yesterday: I went to see the film God’s Own Country.
Being able to cram the quality of eight hours’ sleep into four.
Double-glazing sales when I was about 16 – on the phone, cold calling. Horrendous.
Self-flagellation.
All the times I was mean to someone.
Worry about the things you can control and don’t worry about the things you can’t.
It would be a racist comment.
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