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View all 178 →Cell Block Tango from the musical Chicago.
As a native-derived person, we don’t believe in death. Death is a western, fear-based concept. We believe that an eternal spirit is housed into a temporary vehicle, and when that vehicle no longer becomes tenable to inhabit, we just move on. If I had to play music, I’d insist on Beethoven’s Triple Concerto.
I don’t care as long as everyone knows the words and joins in.
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View profile →My wife, because she manages me and sometimes there isn’t time for niceties and we have to talk in a language that isn’t very marriage-like.
I think I’d just like to be chilling out really, so it’s like real summer family holidays where the most important things to decide are what are you going to have for breakfast, what are you going to have for lunch, what beach are you going to, and what are you going to have for dinner.
Fame. The upside is not worth the downside – you can’t turn fame on and off, and have privacy.
I haven’t really had a job. I used to work at my dad’s garden centre in my late teens, but it was just messing around.
When I was about 14 and got my first drum kit, I wanted to be a drummer in a band like the Police.
In the 1990s in New Jersey, being driven to a radio station early one morning. Our driver fell asleep and we were on the other side of a dual carriageway with cars coming at us. We all screamed and banged on the seat, and he woke up and pulled the car back across.
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