Gary Numan: When were you happiest?

Originally asked

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

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.

Recorded Gary Numan said elsewhere, not written here

Now. I enjoy what I do for a living, the children are here and I am still happily married after 25 years.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 July 2017 source ↗

Others on this question

Anthony Hopkins Welsh actor

Right where I am now.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2010 source ↗

Sheryl Crow American singer-songwriter

Right now. I am loving my children’s ages – Wyatt is nine and Levi is six – and I wish I could freeze time.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2017 source ↗

I can't remember a time when I was happier than now, to be honest – though that's always been the case.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 April 2014 source ↗

I don’t remember the womb, so … my first taste of ice cream? First night in a girl’s bed: happy.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2015 source ↗

Not one of mine.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 July 2017 source ↗

I was an air display pilot for 15 years, and watched most of my friends die in crashes. When the children came along, I got out of it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 July 2017 source ↗

Yesterday, when Gemma, my wife, played me The End Of Suffering by Thich Nhat Hanh when we were driving into Hollywood.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 July 2017 source ↗

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