Elton John: What do you fear most?

The question

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.

Elton John

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Dying, because I am so happy now.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2023 source ↗

Others on this question

Small things make me anxious – like social things – but I have no big fears because I have faith in my heart.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2026 source ↗

Rosie Jones British comedian and actress

Not being liked.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 December 2022 source ↗

A world where greed rules.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗

Father John Misty American musician

Getting thrown down a well.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 July 2022 source ↗

AIDS activist Jeanne White-Ginder.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2023 source ↗

Entitlement, arrogance, and bigotry.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2023 source ↗

Being with my husband, David, and the boys.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 2 June 2023 source ↗

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