My dog wanting to go out for a wee.
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Everything in my head.
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If I think my family’s not safe. And if I have a good idea musically: sometimes I can’t sleep out of excitement.
Shirley Manson
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Climate change. That is the single most important calamity in the making that I obsess over.
The Middle East crisis.
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