At around midday on the 16th of June, I held my newly born, firstborn daughter in my arms for the very first time. She was six days old, covered in wires and tubes, the most beautiful being I have ever seen, and about an hour earlier I had been told that there was nothing more the hospital could do to…

Music is one of the constants in my life, and it has been for as long as I can remember. I play, and sometimes make, music, but more than anything else I listen to music.

I was never comfortable reading newspapers.

The way the paper always felt slightly uncomfortable to touch, like my hands were never roughed up enough to properly handle a newspaper. Or the way the ink always found its way off the paper and on to my…

If you accomplish something, anything at all, and someone tells you that anyone could have done it, be doubly proud. Out of all people, every single one, you were the one who stepped up and actually did it.