Joss Stone: What did you want to be when you were growing up?

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.

Recorded Joss Stone said elsewhere, not written here

A veterinarian, but I decided against it because it required too many years of schooling; I wasn’t great at school.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 April 2021 source ↗

Others on this question

Vick Hope British television and radio presenter

J-Lo, a foreign correspondent and, at uni, I assumed that someone would tap me on the shoulder and ask me to be in MI6, but it never happened.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 August 2022 source ↗

John Malkovich American actor

A baseball pitcher.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 March 2018 source ↗

Shaun Ryder English singer

In 1975, I watched the film Stardust, and Adam Faith said, “I supply the birds, the pills and the pot.” And I thought, “I want that.”

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 August 2017 source ↗

Warwick Davis English actor

I didn’t have a chance to want to be anything – I became an actor at 11.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 November 2017 source ↗