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The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 August 2023 source ↗
Walking with Eric Clapton’s tour manager Mick to meet Eric backstage, and when I met Eric I said, “Hi Mick.” I wanted to die.
Pretending I’m happy when I’m not.
I did a corporate gig early in my career, and they opened the buffet in the middle of my set and everybody left.
I did an interview years ago and, after it finished, I made some passing comment about sex getting better as you get older – and they used that as the headline. The day the paper came out, I was in a restaurant with the family when a woman on the table next to me leaned over and said, in a sultry voice, “I read your article this morning.”
I’m quite stubborn.
Enthusiastic, enthusiastic, enthusiastic.
Laughing and silliness.
I have lots of beliefs about that, but that will have to wait for another interview.
Brian May, because of his love of wildlife and love of music. He’s a kind, gentle soul.
People told us Eurovision was like a poisoned chalice – to have been part of an amazing team that worked on changing the attitudes around that is really cool.
Jack Whitehall, Walton Goggins, Romesh Ranganathan, Tom Burke, Rory Stewart, Gregory Porter
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