Keith Richards: Which quality in your friends matters most to you?

The question

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.

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

Keith Richards

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

That they don’t die on me.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 January 2003 source ↗

Others on this question

Seeing and being seen.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 26 April 2022 source ↗

Sally Field Actor

That they won’t let me hide.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 March 2016 source ↗

Laughter first and foremost, acceptance, and love.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 19 August 2024 source ↗

Humor, perspective, and selective honesty.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 3 April 2017 source ↗

Right up to this question.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2003 source ↗

Modesty and humility.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2003 source ↗

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