Irvine Welsh
Scottish novelist
When you can barely stand to look at someone without turning away to catch your breath.
Relationships
What does love feel like?
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Sheryl Crow
American singer-songwriter
Euphoric and very calming.
Ann Patchett
American author
Pulling yourself out of a wild ocean and on to a life raft.
Alison Moyet
English singer
Like hunger, which feels like anxiousness, which feels like fear, which feels like excitement.
Andy Serkis
English actor
Strength, comfort, joy and passion.
Suzanne Vega
American singer-songwriter
It feels like a yearning but also a kind of overwhelming glowing out.
Kiefer Sutherland
British and Canadian actor
The easiest thing for me to say would be comfort and at ease.
Rachel Whiteread
English artist
A warm, frayed, soft blanket.
David Guetta
French DJ
There are types: there is the world-being-comfortable type of love and there’s the lust-and-passion type of love – I think I like that one better.
Courteney Cox
American actress and producer
Safe and peaceful. It gives you a sense of ease.
Christopher Eccleston
English actor
I think I’ve only really experienced it on a parental level, and it feels like the rhythm of nature.
David Harewood
British actor and presenter
A warm knowing.
Sarah Parish
English actress
It feels like home.
Paul Heaton
British musician
Like someone is hitting your heart with a cricket bat.
Cressida Cowell
British writer
Warm and golden, and it smells delicious.
Billy Porter
American actor and singer
I’m trying to figure out how to receive unconditional love. That’s hard to do when you’ve never really had it, so I’m trying to navigate that.
Julia Ormond
English actress
A blurred, warm state of total acceptance and joy.
Victoria Derbyshire
British broadcaster
Life-affirming.
Adjoa Andoh
English actress
Like being three and dancing, giddy with joy.
Mary McCartney
English photographer and cookbook author
It feels healthy and it makes your body tingle and you feel excited to be alive.
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