The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?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.
The boozing. I started on rum as a child.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2026 source ↗
My interest in Los Angeles.
Not following through on things.
I dislike my impatience.
My problem with clothes. I’ve got an issue, haven’t I? I’m not a fella in a band who can turn up in his T-shirt and jeans. I’ve got the whole drama of what I’m going to wear: the hair, the makeup. All that preening and pruning that adds to the stress. I have begun to hate that perfectionist in me.
Needing order always.
Trying to exercise authority over one.
A detective. Or a writer. Or a poet.
Recently, as people began to understand what I am trying to do in my painting.
As a nice old man.
Being able to paint the way I do.
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