Florence Welch: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

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

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

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

Recorded Florence Welch said elsewhere, not written here

Perhaps a few drunken incidents – but I’ll keep the coat.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 December 2015 source ↗

Others on this question

Jason Isaacs English actor

I wouldn’t have spent so much time trying to be a professional skateboarder or snooker player.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 November 2020 source ↗

Beverley Knight Singer and stage actor

Some of the neuroses of my 20s. I knew I had a great talent, but I thought it was unmarketable because I felt ugly.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 July 2022 source ↗

Jenna Coleman English actress

I would take away fear.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 February 2019 source ↗

The years of self-doubt.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 April 2025 source ↗

Either pottering around on my own or performing, so I don’t know what kind of person that makes me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 December 2015 source ↗

My little sister Grace. In all the ways in which I am not capable or grounded or calm, she is.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 December 2015 source ↗

A couple of ex-boyfriends.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 December 2015 source ↗

Never getting the lead in the musical at school.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 December 2015 source ↗

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