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Some of those late nights.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Kim Gordon
American musician and artist
I wouldn’t care so much what people thought.
Joss Stone
English singer, songwriter, and actress
It’s all a learning experience, even if it’s a shit time.
Joan Jett
American singer, songwriter and guitarist
I don’t think I’d change anything: the bad forms you more than the good.
Rita Ora
British singer-songwriter
That I didn’t think I knew everything.
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A gazillion years ago I was in Gucci with Melanie Blatt, and I attempted to sit down on a chair that wasn’t there. I did a full-on stuntwoman backward roll, landed in a ball of the floor and laughed so hard I wet myself. Everybody in the shop moved to a different section.
Not scrolling on my phone as much as I do.
That things change.
An ambulance driver.
As a great mother, wife and songwriter.
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