Tim Rice: When were you happiest?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Tim Rice said elsewhere, not written here

When I was seven. I remember it as a golden time, long gone.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2017 source ↗

Others on this question

Playing catch with my son Noah at Fenway Park.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2015 source ↗

Fern Britton English television presenter and author

I am always happiest tucked up at home with my family.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 April 2009 source ↗

Alan Dale New Zealand actor

I have never been happier than I am now. As for when I was happiest in my work, playing King Arthur in Spamalot in the West End.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 March 2009 source ↗

Lorraine Pascale British model and cook

When my daughter Ella was born.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 January 2014 source ↗

I worked in a petrol station on the A1 one summer. I enjoyed it except when I was on latrine duty.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2017 source ↗

I would definitely change the way one or two relationships ended.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2017 source ↗

Possibly the fact that some of the stuff I’ve written will still be around after I’ve snuffed it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2017 source ↗

A painting by Tamara de Lempicka.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2017 source ↗

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