Marc Almond
English singer
Still being here, aged 60. If I thought I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
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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.
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Maybe on tour when I was in Argentina. Yeah, or Brazil: oh my God, those people out there.
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.
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.
Whichever way people perceive me, but hopefully something good-leaning or neutral.
That I can’t control it.
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