I grew up in Gillingham in Kent, and my dad commuted to Victoria Station every day. I remember travelling in with him one day and the noise, the people, and the heat leaving me wide-eyed and grinning.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always loved being in London and being near my parents.
I'm very happy in my 18th century worker's cottage in Kent and playing my music for the dog-walkers paused outside.
When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.
I grew up in Wandsworth and was constantly on public transport, as there wasn't much going on around there.
I look back with the greatest pleasure to the kindness and hospitality I met with in Yorkshire, where I spent some of the happiest years of my life.
My mum lives near Holkham Bay in Norfolk, and with my dad by the coast in Suffolk, I spend quite a bit of time by the sea.
Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!
I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.
I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.
I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.