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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2017 source ↗
I’ve dodged a couple of bullets in dodgy war zones, but I suspect the closest I’ve come to death was a reckless, drunken brush with a waltzer at a student funfair. It nearly chopped me in half.
I’ve had a few hairy scrapes as a scuba diver.
Scarlet fever, 1962. Hypothermia, 1974. Lightning strike, 1986.
When I was about two, I accidentally knocked a boiled kettle on myself. I am scarred, in many ways, from that.
I’ve been lucky. When I was a kid, I babysat and was a lifeguard, which I didn’t hate; and then I was a teacher, which I liked.
The Rolling Stones’ You Can’t Always Get What You Want.
My mother, because now I have two sons and I have help around me – including my family – I can't imagine having four little ones under the age of nine, as she did.
I got very emotional yesterday with a dear friend who was telling me about his relationship falling apart.
Right now. I am loving my children’s ages – Wyatt is nine and Levi is six – and I wish I could freeze time.
The state of our government and the direction that this crazy person is taking us in.
Shaun Ryder, Emma Bunton, Bryn Terfel, Alison Moyet, Sue Perkins, Martin Kemp
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