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.
The years of self-doubt.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 April 2025 source ↗
I wouldn’t have done the naked centrefold in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1972.
My password. [In 2014, Brown Findlay’s iCloud account was hacked.]
I wouldn’t lose my virginity at an army camp and then roll over on to an ants’ nest.
I would never have smoked - I gave up years ago.
Because it’s in one of my songs, War and Peace.
When I worked at a dog food company shovelling the exterminated rats.
Dancing on stage with an open fly.
A bushel of self-confidence.
Barack Obama, for his humility and grace in the face of enormous difficulty.
Holding a large and fragile glass object in a very dangerous environment.
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