The question
If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I would have partied a little bit harder in my 20s.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2023 source ↗
I would not let Nick Cassavetes direct My Sister’s Keeper, the film. He said [the ending] was going to match what was in the book, then changed it.
I would be a bit nicer to myself.
I would take away fear.
I would have stopped making records after They Don’t Know.
“Your lyrics are rubbish.” It was someone I was working with when I was in my early 20s. It turned out well because I then spent a long time studying and learning how to write good lyrics.
I am so curious. We had my son christened because there may be a god but, equally, my partner is a science teacher, so I am also completely open to the possibility that nothing happens.
Living a fairytale.
My grandma, who died a few years ago, because I wasn’t able to see her on my last visit to Georgia.
I almost cried last night because of the lack of sleep.
When I see older generations struggling with technology, I am afraid of it moving so quickly that I can’t use it.
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