Andrea Bocelli: What do you fear most?

The question

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.

Andrea Bocelli

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I fear the arrogance we are all at risk of, the pride that pushes us to put “I” in place of “God”. More prosaically, I fear physical pain because it risks stripping us of our dignity.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 November 2024 source ↗

Others on this question

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Andrew O’Hagan

I can’t say it.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2026 source ↗

Nigel Havers

Every actor has the same fear – ie, you’re never going to work again.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 August 2026 source ↗

Paula Wilcox

Being run over by a cyclist on a pavement or pedestrian crossing, because it’s nearly happened too frequently.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 June 2026 source ↗

Kerry Godliman

Losing my mind.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2023 source ↗

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A singer. I wanted to live off music ever since I was a child – a wish that came true when I was over 35 years old.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 November 2024 source ↗

Question How would you want people to remember you? Death & what remains

As a man who tried to respect everyone, treating them with a smile and with due regard, despite the limitations of being human.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 November 2024 source ↗

Question How close have you come to dying? Death & what remains

As a young man I had a car accident on a foggy night that left the vehicle looking like a squashed box, even though, by some miracle, I walked away unscathed.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 November 2024 source ↗