I decided I wanted a red convertible Jaguar, because I thought I would look the bee’s knees in it. The first time I drove it with the top down, it scared the shit out of me. After that, I only bought “mom” cars.

Gender-affirming surgery. Contrary to popular belief, it’s not widely available on the NHS and a lot of it you have to pay for yourself.

A page from Jim Morrison’s final notebook – I bought it as a birthday gift for a friend.

Three mature palm trees. We restored a property in Italy that had been derelict and I needed to make it look established as quickly as I could.

When my new-born daughter Cleopatra died and I wasn’t there. I was doing a US tour and I remember sitting down in an airport and losing it.

I am not studious enough. I get easily distracted.

When I realised that I could be a musician. I was 16.

I would have spent more time practising and got a proper lawyer to sort out my first album contract.

We were doing a tour in Japan and as our plane landed, it rose again, out of the blue. About 10 years later there was this programme about 10 of the nearest misses, and it was my flight. There was another plane on the runway and we nearly landed on top of it. I didn’t know until 10 years later.