The question
What thought won't let you sleep?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Creating. When everyone goes to bed and then you have six or seven hours to create peacefully. I’ve become nocturnal. Even on a night when I am not in the studio, I still won’t go to sleep till six in the morning.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 December 2020 source ↗
Those mad thoughts. Did you turn off the air fryer? Have I booked my plane for tomorrow?
Hormones – other than that, I sleep like a rock.
If you have a nice drink before going to bed, you don’t stay awake at night. I like almost anything in a bottle.
Figuring out the best way to introduce the next version of myself.
I always wanted to be a rapper.
To my father, for the time that was lost when we weren’t getting along. We were able to reconcile a few months before he passed away five years ago.
When I was young and carefree, before I realised what the obstacles were that we face as black people. I was raised in a beautiful home with incredible parents. They allowed me to enjoy what it was to be a child.
I bought myself a diamond pinky ring for two million dollars.
To be in a position to empower my entire family with generational wealth.
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