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I learned how to play The Wind Cries Mary guitar solo.
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View all 192 →Getting elected as MP for the Rhondda in 2001 despite everyone saying I was too “exotic” or “flamboyant”, ie gay.
Watching all of Fellini’s movies one summer.
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My body of work and maybe the fact that I got famous young and I am still here and never ended up in a jail cell.
A successful marriage, my third.
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View profile →Right now. I think I was born in my early 30s and I am finally catching up to my age. It’s fine to be a bit like Frasier now, but it’s probably not ideal when you are 12.
Anything from the concept of human mortality to a faux pas I made at a party in 2005.
Something in comedy. It was either this or Jimi Hendrix.
I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.
In the last couple of years, Britain.
As the man who never died.
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