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The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around ’84 or ’85.

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I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.
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I’m always being inspired .
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And it’s taken me the best part of 54 years to reach that point where I’m like, “I’m very lucky, I’m lucky, I’m blessed” – all of those things. I wish I could impart that to other people but I think when you’re young, you just don’t listen.
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I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. …Nobody really sells records anymore.
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The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around ’84 or ’85.

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