Sharleen Spiteri: What did you want to be when you were growing up?

What did you want to be when you were growing up?

Originally asked

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

This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.

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

Recorded Sharleen Spiteri said elsewhere, not written here

An artist, an interior designer and a vet.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 May 2024 source ↗

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Suzanne Vega American singer-songwriter

An astronaut, a writer, a dancer.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2017 source ↗

Chris Hoy British track cyclist, 1994–2013

Scotland’s rugby captain. My hero Gavin Hastings was captain when he came to our school for a training session when I was 10 or 11. I met him and was blown away.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 February 2018 source ↗

Alison Moyet English singer

For a while I wanted to be a policewoman, but I didn’t have five O-levels.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2017 source ↗

Kim Wilde English pop singer

A pop star: I loved music from a very young age.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 August 2019 source ↗