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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2017 source ↗
I was hellbent on being a Thunderbird. I was devastated when my parents finally told me it was a fictional organisation. Ruined my 18th.
I was fidgety and clueless for a long time.
A radio journalist or on the till at Marks & Spencer.
Composer, pirate, scientist, philosopher.
Ten more closets: I am a hoarder.
A death threat at Glastonbury festival in 1989. The police told me not to go on, but I said I had to because I was headlining. So I wore a bullet-proof vest. It seemed unlikely that I would be assassinated, but it was shocking and very stressful.
Hormones – other than that, I sleep like a rock.
How little money really changes things. It buys doctors but not health, clothes but not taste, makeup but not beauty. When I was young and didn’t have anything, I imagined money had more power.
Something by Leonard Cohen, I haven’t figured out which song yet.
It feels like a yearning but also a kind of overwhelming glowing out.
Julie Andrews, Marc Almond, Joan Jett, Viv Albertine, Emma Bunton, Ronnie Wood
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