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Wanting to be better: a better actor, a better father.
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Jim Kerr
Scottish singer and songwriter
Not much. Given that I’m up and active most mornings around 5am, I’ve had enough of everything by 9pm.
Courteney Cox
American actress and producer
Worrying about not being able to go back to sleep.
Björn Ulvaeus
Swedish musician
Nothing, really. But without little sleeping pills, I’d go crazy.
Jake Shears
Singer and songwriter; co-lead vocalist of Scissor Sisters
Getting older and dying.
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Two days as a labourer in my 15th summer.
Relapsing. I usually spend eight, nine, 10 months sober, then I’ll spend a day relapsing and I get disappointed. But it never lasts too long. I get back up and try again.
The public mistakes I’ve made. Most recently, I tried to light an e-cigarette on an aeroplane and was told to put it out. I completely forgot I was on a plane. I’d had, like, three drinks, but it only takes three. I stopped as soon as I got off and I got straight back into my programme, because that’s what I do.
I’ve been in six car accidents – none of them while I was driving.
My collection of paintings. I have some by William Burroughs.
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