All of the anxious thoughts that you are able to escape during the day that somehow know when you are lying down to relax.
What keeps you awake at night?
Question
What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
Question
What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
Question
What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Identity & self
Question
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
Question
Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
Question
What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A bee in my bonnet – whether that’s a song in my head or a person I’m thinking about.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 September 2022 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 196 →
Bianca Jagger
Nicaraguan human rights advocate
The climate catastrophe.
Simone Biles
United States artistic gymnast
Overthinking about the future.
Chaka Khan
American singer
The fact that I’m a vampire.
More from Julian Lennon
View profile →For being one of the good guys.
I was a waiter with my old friend Justin Clayton; we would sneak in too many drinks and were fired after spilling soup too many times on customers.
A steam train driver.
Ghosting, where you are mid-conversation with someone and they disappear off the face of the planet.
I bought a sports car over 20 years ago and still have it. She’s a black Z8 BMW. I love her: she’s my pride and joy.
A partner – finding her and enjoying the rest of our lives together. Hopefully it will happen one day.
More on daily life
- What single thing would improve the quality of your life? 206 answers
- What is an unusual habit or an absurd thing that you love? 30 answers
- In the last five years, what have you become better at saying no to? 22 answers
- When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do? 22 answers
- In the last five years, what new belief, behaviour, or habit has most improved your life? 20 answers
- What does the first sixty minutes of your day look like? 16 answers
Also answered this
Sinéad O'Connor, Cerys Matthews, Kim Gordon, Gavin Rossdale, Bruce Dickinson, James Bay
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All daily life questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject