Kevin Rowland: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

If you could edit your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Kevin Rowland said elsewhere, not written here

I’d have stuck with the original Dexys Midnight Runners look we started in 1978, which became known as the New Romantic look a couple of years later. Our management and record label talked us out of it. Later, Duran Duran and Spandau came out with that look and that made us look old-fashioned.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 August 2025 source ↗

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Tracy-Ann Oberman Actor and writer

I am a living self-help book – I’ve managed to train myself to never regret anything.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 August 2021 source ↗

Andy Roddick American tennis player

I’d love to have won Wimbledon.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 June 2015 source ↗

Emma Barnett British broadcaster and journalist

Not being able to have a baby for two and a half years. Lots of people say it made me a better person; I think it made me worse. You go to a very dark place with your friends because they are having kids, and you want to be happy for them but you’re not.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 February 2021 source ↗

Belinda Carlisle American singer

I wouldn’t take back the drugs, but there are a few boyfriends that I’d edit out of my life.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2023 source ↗