The question
What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?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.
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1 March 1991, when I got back on the stage almost a year after a road accident in our tour bus. I felt like I had climbed Mount Everest. That was euphoric.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2019 source ↗
Visiting my children at college. I don't stay long, because their lives are so busy - the way they should be.
The birth of my children.
When the war was over—whichever war that was.
My teenage years in the Runaways: I was still naive enough to think good things about the world and life and people, and I was having fun playing rock’n’roll around the world, living the dream.
A song I wrote years ago called Remember Me With Love.
My life is wonderful – I can’t ask for one more thing.
Art. We have some Picassos and Diego Riveras.
I’ve only done two and loved them both – one in the band, and the other as an interpreter in customs.
Not yet being able to sing in a free Cuba.
Comforting, solid, unconditional, a drug.
Carl Barât, Philip Glass, Alexander Armstrong, Matt Goss, Tim Minchin, Paul Weller
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