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I wouldn’t take back the drugs, but there are a few boyfriends that I’d edit out of my life.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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I would have had a bit more belief in myself: I would have reached for America sooner.
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I would take away fear.
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Not being able to have a baby for two and a half years. Lots of people say it made me a better person; I think it made me worse. You go to a very dark place with your friends because they are having kids, and you want to be happy for them but you’re not.
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Having a career that’s lasted 47 years, especially when I felt like an impostor for so many of them.
To stay in the moment and live each day to the maximum. You never know when it’s going to be taken away.
As a singer who did everything her way, no compromise.
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A travel agent, so I could see the world.
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