The question
When did you last change your mind about something important?Originally asked
Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017
The exact question was part of every retrieved Vox 9 Questions installment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
When I decided that Mavis Staples was right – I don’t need to despise myself.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 May 2025 source ↗
I almost pulled out of my first solo tour because of impostor syndrome.
Oh, most days. I can watch a political programme and think, “That sounds a really good point.” Then someone will argue the opposite and I’ll think, “Yeah, he’s got a point as well.” I am constantly sitting on a fence.
Last week, when I decided to rewrite the children’s book I’ve been working on.
When I worked out I was gay and decided to leave the church at 29.
A ballet dancer.
Bees humming in a tree of blossom.
“And for you, sir?” It happens a lot.
Nick Cave for his determination to hold a space for public discourse on the deep and difficult and mysterious elements of life.
Throwing up all over the red velvet seats in the House of Lords on a school trip, aged nine.
High-functioning introvert.
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