Yayoi Kusama: What keeps you awake at night?

Originally asked

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

A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.

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

Recorded Yayoi Kusama said elsewhere, not written here

I am an insomniac, so I often draw and write at night.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 May 2016 source ↗

Others on this question

My son. He is a teenager.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 April 2014 source ↗

Ambulances – I live near a hospital.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 April 2025 source ↗

Aidan Gillen Irish actor

Foxes making love: it’s a very unsettling sound.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 May 2017 source ↗

Ian McEwan British novelist and screenwriter

The BBC World Service followed by the dawn chorus.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 August 2018 source ↗

I am in my ninth decade, so most people I have admired are no longer alive.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 May 2016 source ↗

Yayoi Kusama’s Manhattan Suicide Addict.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 May 2016 source ↗

I am always happiest when I am making my art.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 May 2016 source ↗

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