I feel like it’s always what I’m about to do.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I feel like it’s always what I’m about to do.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 May 2024 source ↗
Learning to surf - a 6ft frame is a real hindrance for the sport.
Being able to write books that entertain people around the world.
That I’ve never killed anyone – and I’ve been tempted numerous times. My other achievement is that I went to Australia, which meant I was on a plane without smoking for almost 24 hours, and I didn’t kill anyone on that flight.
My body of work and maybe the fact that I got famous young and I am still here and never ended up in a jail cell.
Maybe on tour when I was in Argentina. Yeah, or Brazil: oh my God, those people out there.
Figuring out the best way to introduce the next version of myself.
That I can’t control it.
I have to say myself, because I know everything that he’s been through and still continues to go through. I admire him. So I vote me – I like him.
A trip that was, like, $100k. It was a lot of money and I didn’t even go on it. It was to St Barts. I paid for me and my friends and a lot of stuff fell apart, and then it ended up with one of my friends just going with his girlfriend.
Whichever way people perceive me, but hopefully something good-leaning or neutral.
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