Paula Wilcox: What thought won't let you sleep? — FLAPSS

The question

What thought won't let you sleep?

Originally asked

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

A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.

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

PW

Paula Wilcox

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Anything, because I’m a worrier. Also, if I’m working on a really exciting project, I can be awake like an excited child looking forward to going on holiday.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 June 2026 source ↗

Others on this question

View all 196 →

Ali Abbasi builder

Working on new ideas and driving

Sheryl Crow American singer-songwriter

The state of our government and the direction that this crazy person is taking us in.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2017 source ↗

Mandy Patinkin American actor and singer

Not being at peace with myself, in spite of an ongoing lifetime effort to try to calm down and accept that, no matter what, I did the best I could.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2019 source ↗

Aidan Gillen Irish actor

Foxes making love: it’s a very unsettling sound.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 May 2017 source ↗

More from Paula Wilcox

View profile →

Question Which trait in yourself do you like least? Identity & self

I’m very impatient – next question.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 June 2026 source ↗

Question What most recently moved you to tears? Identity & self

I cry a lot at films; my mother and I were champion criers at Meet Me in St Louis.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 June 2026 source ↗

Question What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you? Failure & regret

We’ve run out of champagne.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 June 2026 source ↗

Question What trait do you most dislike in other people? Values & belief

Complaining about the weather, because there’s nothing you can do about it. There’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 June 2026 source ↗

Question What one change would most improve the quality of your daily life? Daily life

A driver or a helicopter.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 June 2026 source ↗

Question How would you sum yourself up in three words? Identity & self

Impatient, funny, worrier.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 June 2026 source ↗

More on daily life

Also answered this

Busta Rhymes, Lee Child, Zack Polanski, Leona Lewis, Elaine Paige, Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Search the directory for somebody in particular.

Explore further

All daily life questions
The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject

Report this answer