Billy Ocean: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

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

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.

Billy Ocean

British singer

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I would do a lot more investments.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 August 2016 source ↗

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Kerry Godliman

I’d drink less alcohol in the 90s.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2023 source ↗

Florence Welch British singer

Perhaps a few drunken incidents – but I’ll keep the coat.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 December 2015 source ↗

Marina Diamandis

I would get therapy in my early 20s.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 June 2025 source ↗

Steve Jobs Co-founder and chief executive of Apple; co-founder of NeXT; chief executive of Pixar

But the market was changing. The industry was changing. The scale was changing. And in the end we knew we would be either the last company to make it or the first to not make it. We were right on the edge. We thought we would be the last one that made it, but we were wrong. We were the first one that didn't. We put an end to the companies that tried to do that. We certainly made our fair share of mistakes, but in the end I think we should have taken a bit longer to realize the world was changing and just gone on to be a software company right off the bat.

Recorded Daniel Morrow, Smithsonian Institution Oral and Video Histories, for the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program, 20 April 1995 source ↗