ES
Last night, on stage in New York.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 January 2017 source ↗
The question
What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Others on this question
View all 577 →
Clara Amfo
Broadcaster
When I was 11 and we got Sky TV.
When I realised that I could get myself through anything that came my way.
This morning in bed.
The moment I knew I would spend my life with Lisa.
More from Emeli Sandé
View profile →Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder: it would leave everyone feeling good.
I always wanted to be a singer, but I also wanted to be a doctor. I almost got there: I did four years and got my neuroscience BSc.
I was a perfume girl at a department store in Aberdeen. I was so bad at it, I didn’t make it to the end of the day.
A Feurich piano: one of the first things I bought when I could afford it.
Stevie Wonder: he’s brought so much joy to the world for so many years.
I would instil confidence in my younger self.
More on time & hindsight
- What lesson has mattered most in your life? 138 answers
- What counsel would you give your twenty-year-old self — and what should they ignore? 78 answers
- What worries you about getting older? 61 answers
- What counsel has proved most valuable to you? 28 answers
- If you could put a message on a giant billboard, what would it say and why? 25 answers
- What line from a parent, teacher, or mentor do you still repeat to yourself? 23 answers
Also answered this
Kelis Rogers, Gloria Estefan, Marianne Faithfull, Imelda Staunton, Toyah Willcox, Doris Day
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All time & hindsight questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject