Father John Misty: What is your greatest fear?

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.

Recorded Father John Misty said elsewhere, not written here

Getting thrown down a well.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 July 2022 source ↗

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Stephen Fry Actor, writer and broadcaster

Being found out.

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

Shirley Manson Scottish singer and songwriter; lead vocalist of Garbage

Dying of the same awful disease that took my mother – a particularly aggressive form of dementia called Pick’s disease.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 May 2022 source ↗

Tom Lubbock Art critic

I think that loss of speech, and of understanding of speech, and of understanding of writing, and of coherent writing – these losses will amount to the loss of my mind. I know what this feels like and it has no insides, no internal echo. Mind means talking to oneself. There wouldn't be any secret mind surviving in me.

Recorded The Observer, from the journals he kept between 2008 and 2010, 7 November 2010 source ↗

Norman Lear

The greatest fear I can remember is coming back from WW II and being amazed that I was more afraid to audition for a job than I was flying 52 missions.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2021 source ↗