To my father, who was aggressively indifferent to what I was doing. He did say sorry to me when he was dying and I don’t think I was very gracious.
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Everyone I ever met in 2007, because I was definitely about two hours late.
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My father – I think he doubted our closeness.
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To my brother. When he was a small boy, I made him urinate on an electric fence to see if liquid could really transmit electricity.
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To the Scissor Sisters. Back in the day, I could be an absolute monster; I was a real asshole.
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My mum, because she’s been a nurse for over 40 years. She works in a hospice, and there’s no bullshit with her.
That all the cliches about people in the music industry are true.
British summers give me a really happy feeling. My bedroom at our family home in Harrow looks out on to our garden and a cricket field, and you just know when it’s the first day of summer.
Surviving the music industry. I think it’s been responsible for killing a lot of musicians. Lots of us have mental health issues, and drink and drug problems, and the industry doesn’t really care.
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