Keith Richards: Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

Originally asked

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

The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.

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

Recorded Keith Richards said elsewhere, not written here

Modesty and humility.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2003 source ↗

Others on this question

Meghan Trainor American singer-songwriter

My self-criticism.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2024 source ↗

I very often set my heart on things – and if they don’t happen, I’m not great at dealing with disappointment.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 April 2024 source ↗

Bonnie Raitt Singer and guitarist

When I’m self-involved or insensitive to others.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2022 source ↗

An “elastic” sense of time (fancy way of saying I am late a lot).

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2014 source ↗

That they don’t die on me.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 January 2003 source ↗

Right up to this question.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2003 source ↗

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