TO
I’ve been happy all my life.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 January 2017 source ↗
The question
What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Others on this question
View all 577 →
Nish Kumar
British stand-up comedian and presenter
Right now. I think I was born in my early 30s and I am finally catching up to my age. It’s fine to be a bit like Frasier now, but it’s probably not ideal when you are 12.
Rebecca Front
English actress, writer and comedian
Last night, having dinner with the family round the kitchen table.
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
English interior designer and television personality
This is going to horribly upset my wife, my children and my grandchildren, but it was when I did The Greatest Snowman last year for Channel 4. Being let loose on an Austrian mountainside to build snow sculptures was my happy point, and who knew I’d find an icy G-spot at nearly 58.
Björk Guðmundsdóttir
Icelandic singer
Merging with nature or merging with people.
More from Terry O'Neill
View profile →I was invited to Sharon Tate’s house the night she was murdered. I declined the invite due to jetlag.
Not photographing Marilyn Monroe.
Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone.
A jazz drummer.
Eden Hazard, a true sportsman.
I cry about 10 times a week. I’m a real softy.
More on time & hindsight
- What lesson has mattered most in your life? 138 answers
- What counsel would you give your twenty-year-old self — and what should they ignore? 78 answers
- What worries you about getting older? 61 answers
- What counsel has proved most valuable to you? 28 answers
- If you could put a message on a giant billboard, what would it say and why? 25 answers
- What line from a parent, teacher, or mentor do you still repeat to yourself? 23 answers
Also answered this
Tony Christie, Chris O'Dowd, Jodie Foster, Martha Stewart, Andrea Martin, Fay Ripley
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All time & hindsight questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject