If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing?
Recorded Ray Davies said elsewhere, not written here
I’ll have to write the greatest song I’ve ever written. You know, every day I get up, I live most days like they’re my last. I wake up with a kind of fear in my belly, with a feeling like, ‘This is it – go for it.’ So in many respects, it won’t be that much different from any other day. Knowing my luck, if I knew it was going to be my last day I’d make an elaborate arrangement. But something always goes wrong – like the gas boiler would explode. I’m not very good at making plans, so I live every day as if it’s my last. But I’d have to write a great song.

Clash, Swan Song, 28 May 2009 source ↗

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Serge Pizzorno Musician and songwriter; guitarist of Kasabian
I’d sit and listen to albums end to end. I’d listen ‘S. F. Sorrow’ by The Pretty Things, then ‘Endtroducing’ by DJ Shadow. Just before I die, the last thing I’d listen to would be ‘Come On Eileen’ by Dexy’s Midnight Runners. Imagine dancing to that and dying right at the end of it. My missus would film it and it would be on YouTube. I’d still be warm and people will be watching it.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 6 July 2010 source ↗
Mark Rylance Actor, playwright and theatre director
Anywhere but the M25, rushing around in circles going nowhere with no one.
Recorded Catherine Shoard, Don't Look Up press questionnaire, The Guardian, 9 December 2021 source ↗
Pelle Almqvist Singer; frontman of The Hives
Maybe I would want to spend time with my child, but there are more things I want to do, so let’s hold on that. I would like to get moderately drunk walking around in a city with all my friends. I would like to be surprised by who shows up. We’d drink beer and liquor, maybe some red wine too. We’d be mixing everything, and there’d be no hangover the next day anyway!
Recorded Clash, Last Day On Earth, 6 July 2012 source ↗
Andrew W.K. Singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter
An extremely large amount of partying. Just the hardest partying anyone has ever done, ever. Going out in a blaze of burning party fireball glory. Beaming, streaming, and teaming waves of wonder and pleasure crashing over me in euphoric surges of glorious oblivion.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 28 August 2014 source ↗

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