John Mellencamp: Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

Originally asked

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

The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.

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

Recorded John Mellencamp said elsewhere, not written here

My quick temper and the chaos that ensues in the hurricane that follows.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2015 source ↗

Others on this question

Johnny Flynn British actor and musician

Control freakery in the kitchen.

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

Stealing from the elderly and then acting real cocky about it.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2014 source ↗

Not following through on things.

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

My personality.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2014 source ↗

Ungratefulness.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2015 source ↗

I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 December 2015 source ↗

It’s not our God-given right to be happy. So, if a man can laugh out loud once or twice a day, that would be happiness.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 December 2015 source ↗

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