Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2019 source ↗
My younger self. I told myself so often that I was not good enough, that I was not smart enough, that I was not interesting enough, that I was boring and ugly. I wasn’t kind to my body, and I did and said things to myself that I would never do or say to a friend.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 August 2022 source ↗
If I have upset someone, I have said sorry to him or her at the time.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 September 2016 source ↗
I’m good at saying sorry – so no one, because I’ve already said it.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 September 2021 source ↗
My mother, because I didn’t appreciate how proud she was of me being deputy prime minister. She ended up doing more press than me, and I was too sensitive and reacted.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 April 2018 source ↗
I saw a very expensive painting by a wonderful American painter called Charles Burchfield. I really loved it – it hit me in the solar plexus – and I thought if I did three extra concerts on tour, I might be able to afford it. And I did.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2019 source ↗
As you go through life, you discover so many forms of love – passionate, compassionate, familial, friendship. Love is hard to describe but it’s wonderful.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2019 source ↗
I interrupt too much.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2008 source ↗
A botanist or a florist.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2019 source ↗
In London. When Blake [Edwards, her husband since 1969] made me laugh so much I wept. Blake says I slept with a smile.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2008 source ↗
Working on my memoir because some memories were painful to revisit.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2019 source ↗
Adam Clayton, Adam Peaty, Adele Parks, Adjoa Andoh, Aidan Gillen, Alex Jones
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