kd lang: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

kd lang

Canadian musician

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

When I was working hard, I was going so fast that I didn’t absorb a lot.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 May 2021 source ↗

Others on this question

Russell Howard British comedian and presenter

I wouldn’t lose my virginity at an army camp and then roll over on to an ants’ nest.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 February 2020 source ↗

I’d have reported the tutor who asked me to read an essay to him sitting on the toilet as he lay soaping himself in the bath.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2025 source ↗

Greg James British author, broadcaster, comedian, and presenter

If I had known what a stylist was when I joined Radio 1, I would have enlisted the help of one.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2019 source ↗

Isla Fisher Australian actress

I would have tried that anti-stretch mark cream during pregnancy.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 July 2016 source ↗