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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.
When I had my first kid and when I had my first big success with I Gotta Feeling.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 December 2017 source ↗
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Björn Ulvaeus
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If it wasn’t for coronavirus, it would be right now. All my life I’ve felt a pressure to achieve. It’s gone now, and that gives me a sense of freedom. Whenever I, for short moments, forget about corona and climate change, I’m happy.
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I am a happy person. I am happy every day. But if I had to pick a time it would be the first time I fell in love.
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Every time I put out a record, I feel like it’s the best. So when a record is not successful it’s very painful.
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