The question
What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Getting to 39 without having a filling in my teeth.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 May 2026 source ↗
Paying my rent and being able to support my family from making music.
Writing songs that can be handed down through generations.
Nineteen books. Twenty next year…
In 1999, the British Library auctioned off some of its newspaper holdings. My wife and I formed a non-profit and saved more than 20 tons of these irreplaceable bound newspapers, including the last intact run of Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World.
Christmas elf at the Rainforest Cafe.
Endless vomiting. That comes from my emetophobia, which is a huge part of my OCD.
I bought a house with someone and realised at the housewarming party that it was a mistake.
Anyone who can pick up a house spider with their bare hands.
Try not to take yourself too seriously.
Congratulating Dua Lipa on managing to release a single in such a tough industry, because I thought she was a struggling indie artist. I Googled her the next day and realised that she has 88 million followers.
Tim Rice, Robert Carlyle, Paapa Essiedu, Cressida Cowell, Yusuf Islam, Mel Giedroyc
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