Probably all of them because I am not big into English literature. I read a lot of self-improvement books.
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Probably all of them because I am not big into English literature. I read a lot of self-improvement books.
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None. I love reading, and I read a good book and a bad book at the same time.
My own biography! Being serious, there’s an Australian novel by Gregory Roberts called Shantaram that I didn’t read through.
I’ve never read any Proust.
Audiobooks have allowed me to catch up on the books I always claimed to have read anyway. On long journeys I’ll often be listening to Kafka, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn. It’s a fantastic way to pass time and often means I’ll turn up at the gig really depressed. So it’s a win-win.
It happened when I was younger, somewhere outside London. We were on bikes, and this older girl pulled up and said something racist that I won’t repeat. I will never forget that, because it was the first time, and I was like, “Oh, I am feeling different from everyone around me right now”.
I quite enjoyed all my retail jobs (I worked in H&M and Gap), but the worst times were the sale periods. The summer sales – awful.
Sensitive, kind, silly.
Thinking about all the children that are affected by all the wars that are going on right now.
I would tell myself to stop being such a worrier.
Nothing’s guaranteed and things change in an instant, and to get used to that and stay in the moment.
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