Joss Stone: What did you want to be when you were growing up?

What did you want to be when you were growing up?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Joss Stone said elsewhere, not written here

A veterinarian, but I decided against it because it required too many years of schooling; I wasn’t great at school.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 April 2021 source ↗

Others on this question

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Adam Clayton

A comedian, and I may have achieved that.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 December 2024 source ↗

Louis Walsh Irish music manager and television personality

I just wanted to work in music. I didn’t want a real job.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2017 source ↗

Lauren Laverne English radio DJ, and television presenter

I wanted to be like my dad, who was an academic, because he had an office packed full of books, always had loud music on, and seemed to get to do what he wanted.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 February 2022 source ↗

Lucy Worsley English historian

A spy, a witch and a nun.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2017 source ↗