The question
What thought won't let you sleep?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Thinking about all the worst possible things: losing people, dying, how am I going to die? All that sort of stuff. I stay awake thinking about furniture and shoes as well. It’s not all death.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 January 2019 source ↗
Inconsequential things like whether my basketball team, the Portland Trail Blazers, can get it together for the play-offs.
Worrying about insomnia.
Nothing, really. But without little sleeping pills, I’d go crazy.
My children, because they come with me wherever I go.
I say it a lot to my kids when I’ve lost my temper, and I’ll save up a big one for when they are 18.
When I am in Italy with the family, not thinking about work.
The Wimpy in Kingston when I was 16. I’d recently become vegetarian, and there weren’t many veggie burgers in 1988.
A really careful lobotomy, to switch off bits of my brain.
“I don’t love you.”
It’s hard to beat David Attenborough. Everything he does is quality. I like people who make me proud to be British.
Elaine Paige, Donny Osmond, Daniel Mays, David Hasselhoff, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Joely Richardson
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