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.
A few haircuts.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 December 2024 source ↗
I’d take back some dumb shit I said when I had no audience and found that being shocking made people laugh.
I’ve made a lot of mistakes, but if I could go back and fix the mistake, I wouldn’t be here.
I would edit my worry, because I suffer from anxiety, which ruins some moments.
I wouldn’t have done the naked centrefold in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1972.
That I never became a virtuoso musician.
A good understanding of how to use a computer.
The fact that I might wake up early.
The best possible understanding of who they are and where they came from.
To all my ex-girlfriends because I never turned into the person I thought I was. And to Naomi Campbell, for not being ready to deal with my addictions.
A headmaster said I was a complete washout and I would never be any good for anything.
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