People-pleasing.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2025 source ↗
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Weakness – not to be confused with sensitivity, which is a superpower.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2022 source ↗
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View all 196 →Bullying, flakiness, rudeness, lack of humility, being patronising and ungenerous.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2024 source ↗
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Fear and all of its consequences.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 March 2022 source ↗
Cruelty and not treating others as equals.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2024 source ↗
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View profile →A shimmering bioluminescence that lights up each cell.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2022 source ↗
Procrastination.
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 ↗
Trusting some men.
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 ↗
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 ↗
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