If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing?
Recorded Guy Garvey said elsewhere, not written here
Let’s pretend I’ve been training for my pilot’s licence. I’d like to take off in a two-seater sea plane from the loch in Mull and land it expertly in the little boating lake at Heaton Park. Which interestingly has a pair of my spectacles at the bottom of it from my last day at school in 1990.

Clash, Swan Song, 19 October 2012 source ↗

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Shaggy Reggae musician
I would like to achieve a sense of happiness. My life is so full right now, and so fast-paced – and it always had – so that day would be a day of doing nothing. Just messing around with my daughters, and my wife, and my sons. Just fun.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 27 May 2020 source ↗
Omid Safi Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University
The rest of that night is a feverish blur. I asked to talk to my mom; had a slice of chocolate cake; prayed. I remember waking up every few hours and seeing my mother praying by my bedside, then every nurse in the hospital, and then every cleaning staff member who loved my father for his kindness toward them throughout the years — all praying for me.
Recorded On Being column, 7 February 2018 source ↗
Mark Rylance Actor, playwright and theatre director
Anywhere but the M25, rushing around in circles going nowhere with no one.
Recorded Catherine Shoard, Don't Look Up press questionnaire, The Guardian, 9 December 2021 source ↗
Damon Gough Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist; records as Badly Drawn Boy
I’d make the best double album ever. People hate double albums and always say, ‘this should have just been one’, like ‘Sandinista!’ by The Clash. I’d like to try and achieve a double album that everyone says, ‘actually, I could do with it being three’. I’d have to get up early.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 22 October 2010 source ↗

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