Gavin Rossdale
British musician
Painting 11 identical dentists’ offices magnolia. It was Kafkaesque. By the time you are in office four, you are losing your mind.
What is the worst job you have done?
Question
If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
Question
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
Question
What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
Question
What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Identity & self
Question
What does love feel like?
Relationships
Question
What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Chipping rust off a crane.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 March 2009 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 241 →
Meera Syal
British writer and actress
Having to clean out my daughter’s digs at university. The memory of the state of that toilet still lives with me.
Leafleting for a window company when I was 12. I remember putting them through letterboxes thinking: I’m going to sell drugs, because this is rubbish.
Jack Whitehall
English comedian, actor, presenter and writer
It’s also one of the best jobs I’ve done, but two hours in, when everyone’s pissed and ignoring you, hosting the Brit awards can be a tough gig.
More from Alan Dale
View profile →I would not get married until I was in my 30s.
My tendency to be inappropriate.
The same as most people. Money and, will I ever work again?
As a kid I used to fantasize about being Clayton Moore, the masked hero in The Lone Ranger. I’m much too old to play him now – I’d have to be the baddie who he kills – although I do have a horse as King Arthur, well someone clopping along behind me with a pair of coconuts.
Breathlessness.
Losing one of my children.
More on craft & work
- What do you consider your greatest achievement? 206 answers
- How does a new work begin for you? 86 answers
- What do you do when you feel creatively blocked or stuck? 82 answers
- How do you know when a piece of work is finished? 76 answers
- How much rewriting or revision do you do? 60 answers
- What is the part of your job that people would be surprised is most of your job? 57 answers
Also answered this
Jenna Coleman, Ralf Little, Lupita Nyong'o, Brendan Gleeson, Jessica Brown Findlay, Craig Charles
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All craft & work questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject