Midge Ure: How would you describe what love feels like to you? — FLAPSS

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How would you describe what love feels like to you?

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Midge Ure

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It’s not all soft focus and wheat fields. Love songs can be about hate, fear, envy, lust and anger, because that’s part of love as well.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2023 source ↗

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Daniel Mays British actor

The highest of highs and the lowest of lows.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2020 source ↗

Ronnie O'Sullivan English snooker player

It makes you feel like you want to live.What is the worst job you’ve ever done? Doing the audiobook of the first book. It was hard. I couldn’t do that again.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2023 source ↗

Yogi Berra Baseball catcher and manager; ten-time World Series winner with the New York Yankees

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.

Recorded Blissquote, Interview, Blissquote, 13 January 2026 source ↗

Finding your phone.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 January 2026 source ↗

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Question Which trait in yourself do you like least? Identity & self

Sitting on the fence – I will do anything to avoid confrontation.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2023 source ↗

Question Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them? Values & belief

Carol Vorderman, because she’s stuck her head above the parapet to try to hold our bizarre politicians to account.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2023 source ↗

Question What thought won't let you sleep? Daily life

Those mad thoughts. Did you turn off the air fryer? Have I booked my plane for tomorrow?

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2023 source ↗

Question What would you most want to leave your children? Death & what remains

Exactly what my parents left me: the knowledge of the difference between good and bad and right and wrong. Everything else is entirely up to them.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2023 source ↗

Question What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you? Failure & regret

I stopped drinking 18 or 19 years ago, and in an argument someone who will remain nameless said: “Oh just go and have a drink.” It was nasty.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2023 source ↗

Question What do you fear most? Identity & self

Apathy, either from an audience, the people around me or myself.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2023 source ↗

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