Foxes making love: it’s a very unsettling sound.
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American singer-songwriter
The state of our government and the direction that this crazy person is taking us in.
Anything, because I’m a worrier. Also, if I’m working on a really exciting project, I can be awake like an excited child looking forward to going on holiday.
Mathew Horne
English actor
Insomnia. I go to bed at 9.30pm and listen to Radio 4.
Jean Paul Gaultier
French fashion designer
When there is someone attractive in my bed.
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A stuntman. Evel Knievel was an icon.
Pyramid Song, by Radiohead, live.
Teachers at my school, for being such a smartarse.
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