I’m terrified by the natural world. I always think that it’s really funny, I guess, because often I work with kind of natural or kind of organic materials. People think that I’m a nature lover, and I am a nature lover to a certain degree, but I’m kind of terrified and fascinated by it, you cannot get me to go camping. ((Close To Nature, Crisis Of The Soul)) But we moved from Scotland when I was quite small, when I was five, to Richmond, which is the west side of London, and we lived in this amazing big Victorian mansion block, a big apartment building, which had this huge garden that we’d share, that went down to — that actually went down to the river. So, we had a lot of freedom as kids to run around and going on our bikes along the towpaths, along the river, Richmond Park was there. ((Mucking Around)) So, there was a lot of — it wasn’t like being in the countryside, but it was kind of quite wild. I mean it didn’t feel that urban. So, that was kind of my kind of childhood, but it’s — I have a very urban connection, I think, to nature and to kind of landscape. ((Anywhere Out There))

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