Whenever I walk past an ice-cream shop, I just can’t not buy an ice-cream.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 February 2025 source ↗
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is the worst job you have done?
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What does love feel like?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
Originally asked
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The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
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Procrastination.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2022 source ↗
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Holding a grudge.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2009 source ↗
Bonnie Raitt
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When I’m self-involved or insensitive to others.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2022 source ↗
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Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2022 source ↗
It was a double-edged sword, but being a major-label artist, I felt like a commodity, a thing to be sold.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2022 source ↗
A shimmering bioluminescence that lights up each cell.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2022 source ↗
The outcome of the Leveson inquiry.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2022 source ↗
In the first lockdown. Obviously, there was terrible grief and sadness and fear around, but there was also this reclaiming for nature. I was constantly at my allotment with the big kids and my husband.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2022 source ↗
When I was 18, I bought a boat for a million pounds and sold it a year later for just over half the price.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2022 source ↗
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