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I am who I am because of that messed-up childhood.
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I would have stopped making records after They Don’t Know.
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How little confidence I had in my late teens and early 20s.
Eve Ensler
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I would have honoured my body, I would have lived inside it, cherished it and protected it.
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I would have spent more time practising and got a proper lawyer to sort out my first album contract.
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