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I would have stopped making records after They Don’t Know.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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How little confidence I had in my late teens and early 20s.
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I might have carried on doing The Voice.
I’d probably take out a lot of my 20s, when I was rude, annoying and a brat.
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My mentally ill brother going to juvenile hall when he was 14. It led to his incarceration from 14 to almost 40.
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The End by the Beatles.
When I met my husband and had babies. They have made me happy ever since.
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