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Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
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I don’t really flash money about.
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A family holiday – anywhere the kids demand. Last year, I wanted us all to go to Egypt and my daughter said, “No, we’re going to go to Grenada.” So we did.
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A Rose Wylie painting.
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Painting 11 identical dentists’ offices magnolia. It was Kafkaesque. By the time you are in office four, you are losing your mind.
The fact that I am still making music.
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