Mike Skinner: When were you happiest?

When were you happiest?

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

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

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

Recorded Mike Skinner said elsewhere, not written here

When I was a child and I got a new toy.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗

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Rob Brydon Welsh actor and comedian

As a boy in a tree.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 August 2012 source ↗

Terry O'Neill British photographer

I’ve been happy all my life.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 January 2017 source ↗

Charles Collingwood

My childhood. I was an only child, happy and secure, and there was always plenty of time to play cricket.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 March 2025 source ↗

Gloria Estefan Cuban-American singer and songwriter

1 March 1991, when I got back on the stage almost a year after a road accident in our tour bus. I felt like I had climbed Mount Everest. That was euphoric.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2019 source ↗

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I cry all the time.

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I would obviously be in a good place chemically, the synapses would be content. I would play with my kids. I don’t think I would have time to watch anything by Ingmar Bergman. Bergman would suddenly feel like not that good a director if I only had a few hours.

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