Gavin Rossdale
British musician
The fact that I am still making music.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Question
What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
Question
What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
Question
How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Founding the Fashion and Textile Museum.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 July 2021 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 192 →
Rose Ayling-Ellis
British actress
That my work has given deaf children more confidence in themselves and a sense of ownership of who they are.
Edward Fox
British actor
I feel lucky to have been in this business for as long as I have. When I think of the intake that I was with at Rada, only one other person is still an actor, an old fellow called Bill Gaunt.
Getting to 39 without having a filling in my teeth.
More from Zandra Rhodes
View profile →Not doing Diana’s wedding dress.
A quiet moment.
A plane to San Francisco, 25 years ago. There was a bang and I looked out of the window and saw flames coming out of one of the engines. We zoomed down to the airport below.
More on craft & work
- What is the worst job you have done? 229 answers
- How do you know when a piece of work is finished? 67 answers
- What do you do when you feel creatively blocked or stuck? 66 answers
- How does a new work begin for you? 63 answers
- How much rewriting or revision do you do? 46 answers
- What is the part of your job that people would be surprised is most of your job? 41 answers
Also answered this · A–Z
Bozoma Saint John, Katharine Hamnett, Mellody Hobson, Adam Lambert, Adele Parks, Alex Jones
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All craft & work questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject