The question
What is your greatest fear?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I nearly lost my leg and things like that, my life and my leg, you know? So (laughter) yeah, so gradually through the '90s, early 2000s, I was gradually trying to get off drugs, really. That's what I was doing, you know? I'm glad I'm like this today because I wouldn't be here talking to you. I would be probably either dead, in prison or gone crazy.
A Martínez, NPR, KVPR, 24 March 2026 source ↗
That it takes a week for someone to discover my body.
Not being able to breathe – I get very panicky at the thought.
The greatest fear I always had in the jobs I was in was that some son of a bitch I never knew or met was going to screw up, and I was going to get blamed for it. [laughs]
Collapse of the imagination.
I was trying to put a sexy element into punk because that’s one thing that was missing from it.
I’m the sexy sexagenarian. Then I’m gonna be the sexy septuagenarian, ha ha!
Ever since I saw The Beatles in 1962-63 I started to dream about being in a group. Being on stage, in a group, writing your own songs, it just seemed like they were having a ton amount of fun and there was this huge music explosion.
I have no real qualms with this year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class, except, damn, Billy Idol should have made it.
Yeah, well, he died of too much of all the right things.
I was trying to put a sexy element into punk because that’s one thing that was missing from it.
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