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Making songs that are more famous than me.
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Waking people up.
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Making films exactly how I wanted.
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Again, too many times to mention, but probably being swung from the balcony at the top of the Columbia hotel in London by the bodyguard of a Saudi Arabian princess was fairly close.
Like someone is hitting your heart with a cricket bat.
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