Adam Lambert: 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 Adam Lambert said elsewhere, not written here

I would try to work on being able to trust people more easily.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 February 2023 source ↗

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Riz Ahmed British actor and rapper

I would care less about what people think.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 April 2021 source ↗

Kevin Rowland British singer

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.

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

Mark Gatiss British actor and writer

I was a very lazy child, but I think I’ve made up for it by being a workaholic. I might push some of the work back to my childhood.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 February 2016 source ↗

Vicky McClure English actress

I wasted a year doing nothing at 18. I got with a guy and just wanted to hang out. It didn’t do me any favours.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 March 2018 source ↗