Elton John: What do you fear most?

The question

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Elton John

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Dying, because I am so happy now.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2023 source ↗

Others on this question

Being lost and no one wanting to find me.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 January 2024 source ↗

Bonnie Raitt Singer and guitarist

That injustice, ignorance, and fascism win.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2022 source ↗

Ina Garten Cookery writer and shop owner

Pain. I told Jeffrey that if I have a really bad headache just pull the plug.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2016 source ↗

Perfectionism that leads to procrastination.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗

Entitlement, arrogance, and bigotry.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2023 source ↗

AIDS activist Jeanne White-Ginder.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2023 source ↗

Being with my husband, David, and the boys.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 2 June 2023 source ↗

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