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The Thing I Care About Is My Weight - I'm As Fanatical About It As A Member Of Girls Aloud. I Weigh Myself Every Morning. I Know Exactly What I Want To Be - 82kg - And I Try To Stick To It.

My Parents Have Been Dead For Many Years, And When Your Folks Are Gone There Is Nobody Standing Between You And Eternity.

It's Painful And It's Messy. But Sometimes You Just Have To Make The Break And Start Again.

Largely This Is A Class Thing - Writers Tend To Be Cosseted Little Middle-class Kiddies Who Think That The World Owes Them A Royalty Cheque. But Just Doing It - Being In Your Room For Years On End, Locked In Your Head, Alone With Invented Ghosts - It Weakens And Softens The Body. And I Know I Can't Just Live In My Head.

It Felt Natural. That Is What I Remember Most About Becoming A Father Halfway Through My 20s. As If Mother Nature Was Giving Me The Big Thumbs Up.