The question
How close have you come to dying?Originally asked
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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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 September 2022 source ↗
How long have you got? I have written a memoir and the subtitle is Seventeen Brushes with Death.
Probably on a Los Angeles freeway.
When I was five and the doctors walked in and said to my mum: “I am not sure if you will be taking him home.”
In 2012 I stared into the eyes of someone who had just stabbed a man in the neck on the street. I was trying to help the victim; for a very long three or four seconds, I thought he was going to come for me next.
I am not studious enough. I get easily distracted.
A saxophone for £8,000.
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 would have spent more time practising and got a proper lawyer to sort out my first album contract.
When I realised that I could be a musician. I was 16.
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