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.
What I studied at college – A-level economics.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 April 2025 source ↗
I’d have stuck with the original Dexys Midnight Runners look we started in 1978, which became known as the New Romantic look a couple of years later. Our management and record label talked us out of it. Later, Duran Duran and Spandau came out with that look and that made us look old-fashioned.
Going through a divorce.
I would definitely change the way one or two relationships ended.
I would have had a bit more belief in myself: I would have reached for America sooner.
Always trying to turn things into a joke.
When I hired two private detectives and got them to follow each other.
To people who I’ve made a really quick joke about on stage and hurt.
A book of passwords for all the electrical stuff in the house.
Quiet, sharp, clumsy.
Three degrees: I paid my kids’ uni fees.
Tracey Ullman, Desmond Tutu, Ian Rankin, Vicky McClure, Sheena Easton, David Hasselhoff
Search the directory for somebody in particular.