Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2022 source ↗
Heights. For Children in Need, I had to abseil off the Orbit in the Olympic Park. It was the most terrifying thing I’ve done.
Figuratively doing nothing.
Many readers have informed me that it is a tragic and dreary business to go into death without faith. I don’t feel that way. “Faith” is neutral. All depends on what is believed in. I have no desire to live forever. The concept frightens me. I am 69, have had cancer, will die sooner than most of those reading this. That is in the nature of things.
Slugs. And planetary annihilation.
In my sleep in my 90s, after a great gig.
As a kid, my summers at camp in the Adirondacks. And as an adult, when I’m onstage.
When I’m self-involved or insensitive to others.
Arrogance and entitlement.
Balancing my inner and outer life.
Dolores Huerta.
Kevin Rowland, Shirley Manson, John Simm, Chaka Khan, Father John Misty, Patti Smith
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