Liam Gallagher
English singer-songwriter
Digging holes in Manchester in January.
What is the worst job you have done?
Question
Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
Question
When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
Question
What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
Question
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
Question
Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
Failure & regret
Question
What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Wimpy in Kingston when I was 16. I’d recently become vegetarian, and there weren’t many veggie burgers in 1988.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 January 2019 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 229 →
du Beke
English dancer and TV presenter
I was a door-to-door carpet-cleaning salesman. I thought my life was going to end, so I binned that after a day.
Standing outside a pub in Acton on a freezing February day in a threadbare overcoat doing market research.
Judith Kerr
British writer and illustrator
Secretary to a lawyer. I was sacked after a week.
More from Martin Freeman
View profile →I love clothes and accoutrements, so it would be either a suit or a watch. I love Mark Powell in Soho, and Paul Smith.
When I am in Italy with the family, not thinking about work.
“I don’t love you.”
It’s hard to beat David Attenborough. Everything he does is quality. I like people who make me proud to be British.
I say it a lot to my kids when I’ve lost my temper, and I’ll save up a big one for when they are 18.
A really careful lobotomy, to switch off bits of my brain.
More on craft & work
- What do you consider your greatest achievement? 192 answers
- How do you know when a piece of work is finished? 67 answers
- What do you do when you feel creatively blocked or stuck? 66 answers
- How does a new work begin for you? 63 answers
- How much rewriting or revision do you do? 46 answers
- What is the part of your job that people would be surprised is most of your job? 41 answers
Also answered this
Sue Perkins, Omid Djalili, Martin Kemp, Charlotte Church, John Waters, Kiefer Sutherland
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All craft & work questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject