Ricky Wilson
Singer; frontman of Kaiser Chiefs
A positive panic attack.
What does love feel like?
Question
Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
Question
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
Question
What happens when we die?
Death & what remains
Question
What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
Question
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
Question
Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Being present where you are.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 February 2026 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 231 →
Alison Moyet
English singer
Like hunger, which feels like anxiousness, which feels like fear, which feels like excitement.
Clive Myrie
British journalist, newsreader, and presenter
Amazing, all-consuming, overwhelming.
Ann Patchett
American author
Pulling yourself out of a wild ocean and on to a life raft.
More from Billy Crudup
View profile →An education for my child.
Flashes of hubris.
Hopefully we have life in the minds and hearts of the people we interacted with.
I was going to a bar with friends and there was a line at the door. I’d been there before and asked the doorman to skip the line. He said, “Oh, I remember you, you were in Almost Famous, weren’t you?” And I said, “Yeah.” And he goes, “Yeah, get back in line.”
Flashes of hubris.
Giving a speech in high school at a pep rally that wasn’t going so well and the dean unplugged the mic. Apparently, I was rambling and the spirit of the cafeteria was being weighed down.
More on relationships
Also answered this
Marie Kondo, Alan Titchmarsh, Phoebe Dynevor, Terence Conran, Stephanie Beacham, Isabel Allende
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All relationships questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject