Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 January 2020 source ↗
When I was a kid, travelling from Ethiopia to the UK, the plane door opened, the oxygen masks came down and the plane did an emergency landing in Egypt.
Twice I should have died in car accidents when both my cars were written off. I was completely unhurt; the cello was completely unhurt, too. A complete miracle.
Anna dared me to jump off a cliff in Menorca on holiday a couple of years ago. I did. I fell 30m through the air, hit the water at an odd angle and shattered my coccyx.
A car accident in Italy in 1990. Four people got killed. I was lucky, I got thrown out.
As kind, unafraid and boldly vulnerable – and immensely talented, like, mega supernova level. And super hot. And tall. With great skin.
Deciding what I wanted to do at 15 and, against all odds, doing it.
Can I say: maybe tomorrow?
A page from Jim Morrison’s final notebook – I bought it as a birthday gift for a friend.
Heady, dizzying, magical. Time stops.
Anyone I slept with before the age of 27, because I was a selfish, cold-ass bitch.
Jake Shears, Sheryl Crow, Marc Almond, Joan Jett, Courtney Pine, Rick Astley
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