The question
Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
People worship music artists or actors but I have a lot of admiration for doctors, people who save lives.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 December 2017 source ↗
My father. He has treated every person he has met with kindness and respect.
My wife – for her intelligence, talent, ability to survive this business and be such a fantastic mother to our two kids. (Of course, I have to say that, because she’s sitting right here.)
I really admire Bonnie Raitt. She is a singer songwriter who has been doing what she has been doing for so many years and she recently won the song of the year Grammy for Just Like That. I loved the validation that creativity never stops, you can keep doing the things that you love.
Mathew Varghese, an orthopaedic surgeon who runs India’s only polio ward in Delhi. He provides reconstructive surgery to help survivors walk.
Every time I put out a record, I feel like it’s the best. So when a record is not successful it’s very painful.
I Gotta Feeling.
When I had my first kid and when I had my first big success with I Gotta Feeling.
My girlfriend [Cuban model Jessica Ledon].
I guess I would wake up, have breakfast with my children. Then I’d go to the studio and make the best record of my life, and then have a lot of sex! That sounds pretty balanced, I think!
As a nice person, I hope.
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