Tim Rice: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

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

Recorded Tim Rice said elsewhere, not written here

I would definitely change the way one or two relationships ended.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2017 source ↗

Others on this question

Mark Gatiss British actor and writer

I was a very lazy child, but I think I’ve made up for it by being a workaholic. I might push some of the work back to my childhood.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 February 2016 source ↗

Katherine Parkinson English actor

I wish I hadn’t been a heavy smoker for so many years.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 September 2020 source ↗

Cerys Matthews Welsh singer-songwriter

I’d be born a man and have a wife to run the house.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 July 2016 source ↗

Paterson Joseph British actor and author

I wouldn’t live so long in France. After eight years, I came back to London.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 February 2020 source ↗

When I was seven. I remember it as a golden time, long gone.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2017 source ↗

Possibly the fact that some of the stuff I’ve written will still be around after I’ve snuffed it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2017 source ↗

I worked in a petrol station on the A1 one summer. I enjoyed it except when I was on latrine duty.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2017 source ↗

A painting by Tamara de Lempicka.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2017 source ↗

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