Melissa Etheridge: If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.

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

Recorded Melissa Etheridge said elsewhere, not written here

Again, not gonna change anything about myself. I’ve really learned to appreciate everything. Okay, maybe I’d be taller. How about that?

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 5 September 2023 source ↗

Others on this question

I would just be content with every moment as it is instead of gnashing my teeth trying to change things all the time.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 23 February 2024 source ↗

Charlie Munger Vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, 1978–2023

if your proposed marriage contract has forty-seven pages, my suggestion is you not enter.

Recorded USC Gould School of Law commencement, 2007, Speakola, 2007 source ↗

Margaret Atwood Novelist, poet and critic

I’d stop saying yes to inessential requests.

Recorded Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 September 2006 source ↗

I would talk slower. When I hear myself interviewed sometimes it sounds like I’m running an auction.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 April 2014 source ↗

Deplore is a heavy word. I don’t deplore it but I constantly feel the pull of my old Midwestern ways of eating. Boy, can I put some pancakes away.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2023 source ↗

To let fear overcome my life. We’re not gonna let that happen because love is always greater than fear.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2023 source ↗

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