Looking for some inspiration? Why not have a read of some of our celebrity Paper Cuts below. Singer Taio Cruz, T4's Rick Edwards, Radio 1 DJ Nihal, BBLB presenter Zezi Ifore, The Apprentice's Nick Campbell, MC $tush, Blue Peter's Chris Collins, hip-hop star Sway, Bebo's Sofia and authors Nick Hornby, Kevin Brooks and Eoin Colfer have all made their Paper Cuts, now it's your turn!
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Sofia Taylor
The city which is to become a home...
The home which becomes less stranger...
The stranger who becomes a friend….
A friend who becomes a bit more….
The bit more which means he becomes my boyfriend….
My boyfriend who becomes my ex...
The ex who becomes somebody else's girlfriend...
Who becomes someone I see at a party in a fabulous dress...
A dress which becomes a shirt and a hat...
The hat which becomes part of a perfect day...
A memory which becomes a diary, recorded by me...
And I realise I have become at home in this city.
Taio Cruz
Even in situations down and out, your favourite song can lift you out, it puts a smile onto your face. Music matters.
It helps us feel in some sort of sense that someone relates to our experience.
It helps us to not to feel alone. Music matters.
I've loved it since before I was given a name, and I’ll love it till I need a Zimmer frame.
It makes me who I am today. Music Matters.
For me I couldn't live a day, without my voice, guitar, or a piano to play.
So for me it’s truest when I say. Music matters.
Rick Edwards
In the corner of my room is a space. The space sits and waits. It is patient. It has no sense of urgency, or chairs, or anything. It‘s just an absence. I wait too, but I do not sit, and I am not patient. Because my chair hasn’t arrived. I paid for the chair 217 days ago. It is a beautiful chair. It comes, if it comes, with something called an Ottoman, which is a footstool. It was expensive, dearer than a sofa from Tottenham Court Road. The space sits and waits. I write another angry email, whilst standing.
Eoin Colfer
It's very important to me that I'm never late for anything. Sometimes I go a little overboard with my preparations, I can admit it. Usually when there's a family trip coming up. About a week beforehand I begin mentally packing the suitcases. Shoes on the bottom, covered with a layer of sturdy jeans etc.
I realised I was taking things too far when I told my wife that she wasn't packing the suitcases in the same way as I had packed the ones in my head.
She stared at me until I realised how much of an idiot I sounded.
Zezi Ifore
Vending machines that dispense two chocolate bars for your 50p because the “confectionary technician” over-filled the racks. Rain on a stiflingly hot night. Belgian buns unexpectedly crowned by not one but two glace cherries. Eyes that smile at you. Retired wrestlers who now make a living as bit-part players in children’s films. Retired wrestlers who have made a glorious but slightly creaky comeback. New music. Finding a copy of a favourite book in a charity shop and buying it because someone has scribbled their innermost thoughts all over the margins of random pages. Wondering why they gave it away.
Kevin Brooks
'A dog lies sleeping in a quiet patch of sunlight on the grey stone tiles of a kitchen floor. It's late summer. The dog is old. His bones are weary and his once-black muzzle is dulled and whitened with age. His time is nearly over, his running days long since gone.
But he can still dream.
He can lie there in the warmth of the sunlight – whimpering quietly in his sleep, his old legs twitching, his closed eyes flickering – and he can dream for ever of chasing rabbits and digging holes and running wild in the wind.'
Nick Hornby
She waited while the referee showed a yellow card to the player who had tripped her up. The ball was already on the penalty spot, and she tried to focus on where she was going to put it, but she was more worried about the celebration afterwards. If she shouted, they'd hear her voice properly. If they jumped on her, they might feel something they shouldn't. If women were allowed to play Premiership football, she could concentrate on her game, not the deception.
She took a breath and smacked the ball against the crossbar. Only she would ever know what a brilliant shot it was.
Nihal
Besides the obvious things like my family and friends who mean the world to me, MUSIC is the force that envelops my life. The sound of booming bass drum, underpinning a beat that bobs-an-weaves around a melody, that inspires a human to sing from the depths of their soul inspires me. My music is intrusive if invited, demure if ignored, explosive if detonated or sombre and respectful in times of reflection. It is a job, a fuel, a foundation and an obsession. Music matters to me, if it doesn't to you then you just haven't spent enough time with it.
Tim Campbell: the first winner of TV show The Apprentice
“KIERAN.”
“YEAH!”
“YES what!”
“Yes MUM.”
“That’s better. Don’t forget your manners.”
Like he could. Mum was always going on about how important manners were and that they didn’t cost anything. Who’d buy them anyway? It’s not like you could sell them on eBay™ is it?
“Come on. Your dinner’s ready.”
Kieran thought of reminding her that she hadn’t said ‘please’ but imagining her response thought better of it. It annoyed him how it was one rule for adults and another for kids but it annoyed him more to be grounded so he kept his thoughts to himself.
“Coming Mum.”
$tush: up and coming UK Garage MC. She collaborated on the top ten single “Get Down” with Groove Armada
I hate when I’ve just missed my bus, and I end being the only person standing at the stop. Then after waiting ages for the next one to arrive, all of the people who came later on want to push in front like there wasn’t a queue and I wasn’t the first one in it.
The funny thing is, it’s always an adult that pushes in front, yet they have the cheek to have a go at the school children when they do exactly the same thing.
Practice what you preach. A little bit of manners, goes a long way.
Chris Collins: BBC Blue Peter gardener
In trouble, through trouble and out the other side of trouble. In doubt or with regret, unsure and need of escape. Escaping from people, avoiding people, running away, denying the truth. Crying out, feeling angry, shaking with aggression, hitting back.
I firmed the soil, watered the ground, applied the mulch. I imbibe the foliage with my eyes. Things have changed, it's a new beginning, I have entered a new life. I can see the seasons, the changes in the landscape, the differences in the sky. At peace, confident in the objectives, my spirit is calm.
If the old feelings surface I will head there, to my green retreat.
Sway: MOBO award winning British hip hop star
In a city called London Town,
Lived this kid called Donavan Brown,
He lived on an estate with his mum no dad,
He was bad and she could never calm him down.
On the other side London town
Lived this kid called Jonathan Brown,
Just like Donavan he was in a gang
So police were always trying to hunt them down.
They both sold, sold drugs and they heard of each other,
They broke into a fight in a west-end club,
Gun shots fired him before they could say a word to each other,
Court-case revealed Don had murdered his brother.
Sofia: The focus of Bebo and channel Five’s hit show Sofia’s Diary
The city which is to become a home...
The home which becomes less stranger...
The stranger who becomes a friend….
A friend who becomes a bit more….
The bit more which means he becomes my boyfriend….
My boyfriend who becomes my ex...
The ex who becomes somebody else's boyfriend...
Who becomes someone I see at a party in a fabulous dress...
A dress which becomes a shirt and a hat...
The hat which becomes part of a perfect day...
A memory which becomes a diary, recorded by me...
And I realise I have.
Kirsty Gallacher
My Granddad sings lovely songs about his best friend. She’s called My Lady Wife. He remembers all the words and keeps them in his head, but loses lots of other things. Last week he lost our dog, but my mum found it tied up outside the pub. Once he lost all his money at the betting shop and then he lost his temper.
I’ll never tell my mum Granddad’s big secret. She thinks My Lady Wife’s dead but I saw Granddad crying when he told Allotment Fred he’d lost her a long time ago.
That would make mum really cross!
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