kd lang: 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 kd lang said elsewhere, not written here

When I was working hard, I was going so fast that I didn’t absorb a lot.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 May 2021 source ↗

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Armistead Maupin American writer

I would have come out earlier.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 August 2019 source ↗

Carlos Acosta Cuban ballet dancer

The time I told my father I hated him, causing him a lot of pain. He passed away six years ago, and my mother eight years ago.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 September 2018 source ↗

Kerry Godliman

I’d drink less alcohol in the 90s.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2023 source ↗

Bianca Jagger Nicaraguan human rights advocate

I sometimes wish I had had the courage to be a politician – but I made the decision to be a human rights defender instead. I realised I cannot be both at the same time, because they may be incompatible.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 March 2020 source ↗