If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing?
Recorded Ray Davies said elsewhere, not written here
I’ll have to write the greatest song I’ve ever written. You know, every day I get up, I live most days like they’re my last. I wake up with a kind of fear in my belly, with a feeling like, ‘This is it – go for it.’ So in many respects, it won’t be that much different from any other day. Knowing my luck, if I knew it was going to be my last day I’d make an elaborate arrangement. But something always goes wrong – like the gas boiler would explode. I’m not very good at making plans, so I live every day as if it’s my last. But I’d have to write a great song.

Clash, Swan Song, 28 May 2009 source ↗

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James Lavelle Electronic musician, record label owner and curator
I’d like to be dancing the night away, making love and listening to music. All done with the most amazing bag of weed you can possibly imagine so my last joint is perfect.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 13 May 2010 source ↗
Jax Jones DJ and record producer
I’d run it like every day: have something good to eat, make sure my body’s feeling good, and then when it’s time to go I’d head to the spa and just be massaged into death.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 19 November 2019 source ↗
Tricky Musician, record producer and rapper
There’s a few enemies I’d like to take with me. I think mostly telling my family how much I love them, stuff you don’t do. We’ve all lost people and you think, ‘well, I wish I would have said that to them’, or, ‘I wish I would have told them this’. So there would be a lot of that, telling people I love them and what they mean to me and stuff.
Recorded Clash, Last Day On Earth, 29 September 2010 source ↗
Cate Blanchett Actor and producer
I guess dancing up a storm in the living room with my husband and children, and the farmer from across the way. Man, that farmer can dance.
Recorded Catherine Shoard, Don't Look Up press questionnaire, The Guardian, 9 December 2021 source ↗

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