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I saw a very expensive painting by a wonderful American painter called Charles Burchfield. I really loved it – it hit me in the solar plexus – and I thought if I did three extra concerts on tour, I might be able to afford it. And I did.
Antiques and art – I collect 17th‑century portraits.
A Feurich piano: one of the first things I bought when I could afford it.
Gender-affirming surgery. Contrary to popular belief, it’s not widely available on the NHS and a lot of it you have to pay for yourself.
Still being here, aged 60. If I thought I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
Yesterday: I went to see the film God’s Own Country.
In my first bedsit when I went to art college in Leeds. It was a hideous basement, but I loved the freedom.
The motorcycle crash, but also when a neon sign fell on my head in Soho in the 90s.
To my first real boyfriend, for being so mean to him. But really I was just being mean to myself.
Rolf Harris – he let us all down.
Shane MacGowan, Ronnie Wood, Meghan Trainor, Emeli Sandé, Suzanne Vega, Jason Derulo
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