Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 August 2025 source ↗
Years ago, before I had my current manager, I was taken advantage of by people I’d trusted with my finances. That’s made me especially sensitive to the prospect of financial ruin. I’m constantly advising young athletes to be vigilant when it comes to whom you trust with your finances.
I can’t say it.
Not working and not being able to continue to live this lifestyle.
That the Proust Questionnaire will continue to be used by lazy, overworked journalists for another century or so (since you asked …).
On stage – the Old Vic in 1981 and Glastonbury last year.
I worked in the stores of Edgware hospital when I was about 17, and it was grey and depressing.
My dad said, “You’re going nowhere.” I was seven or eight.
Gerry Adams, because he’s got incredible integrity and vision, and he’s had to put up with so much flak.
Shakespeare said, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” – I think that’s true.
My brother Pete passing on in 2005.
Shakin' Stevens, Melissa Etheridge, Hans Zimmer, David Hasselhoff, Alessia Cara, Maureen O'Hara
Search the directory for somebody in particular.