James Bay: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

James Bay

English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I couldn’t do it. I realised recently that all the things that have gone wrong are just as important as all the things that went right.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 January 2016 source ↗

Others on this question

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Julie Hesmondhalgh English actress and narrator

Every time I got drunk and out of order. Especially in my teens and 20s.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2018 source ↗

Laura Kenny English cyclist

I would have spent every single day with my sister before she left to live in New Zealand. At my wedding, it was the first time I had seen her in two and a half years.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2017 source ↗

Beverley Knight Singer and stage actor

Some of the neuroses of my 20s. I knew I had a great talent, but I thought it was unmarketable because I felt ugly.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 July 2022 source ↗

Charlotte Church Welsh singer-songwriter and actress

Trusting some men.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2022 source ↗