Leona Lewis: What does love feel like?

What does love feel like?

Originally asked

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

The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.

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

Recorded Leona Lewis said elsewhere, not written here

Selfless and open, freeing.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 December 2023 source ↗

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Nicholson Baker Contemporary American novelist and writer

It’s like all your emotions are apples and they get crushed all at once into cider.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 August 2020 source ↗

Julie Andrews English actress, singer and author

As you go through life, you discover so many forms of love – passionate, compassionate, familial, friendship. Love is hard to describe but it’s wonderful.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2019 source ↗

Serena Williams United States professional tennis player, 1995–2022

Like you can do anything.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 January 2021 source ↗

Richard Eyre

Warmth and confidence.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 February 2026 source ↗

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Question If you could edit your past, what would you change? Failure & regret

I would tell myself to stop being such a worrier.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 December 2023 source ↗

Question How would you describe yourself in three words? Identity & self

Sensitive, kind, silly.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 December 2023 source ↗

Question What is the worst thing anyone has said to you? Failure & regret

It happened when I was younger, somewhere outside London. We were on bikes, and this older girl pulled up and said something racist that I won’t repeat. I will never forget that, because it was the first time, and I was like, “Oh, I am feeling different from everyone around me right now”.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 December 2023 source ↗