Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 October 2024 source ↗
I had no female role models growing up. I lived an incredibly sheltered life: there was no TV at home and we had no visitors. It wasn’t until rock and pop came into my life that I concocted myself as a role model.
Archaeologist, pop star, store cashier.
My mother says I had a plan to be a farmer’s wife and a violinist, going to concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in my tractor.
I always wanted to play tennis. Otherwise, I always thought it would be fun to do something in mathematics or physics.
Spirit of adventure and kindness.
Children’s underwear department at Marks & Spencer, Oxford Circus. I was 16 years old, earning money in my summer holidays.
Not being a professional footballer.
I’ve had motorcycle accidents – I had one where I ended up in intensive care. But if you are on a frontline – which I have been – and people start shooting at you – which they have done – you put yourself in quite considerable danger. So: on a moving frontline in northern Afghanistan in 2001.
Arrogance and narcissism.
Warm and embracing.
Adam Clayton, Adrian Edmondson, Adwoa Aboah, Aidan Gillen, Alex Hassell, Alison Moyet
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