Florence Welch: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

The question

If you could edit 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.

Florence Welch

British singer

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Perhaps a few drunken incidents – but I’ll keep the coat.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 December 2015 source ↗

Others on this question

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Harry Redknapp English football player and manager

I was probably too cheeky to chairmen over the years.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 May 2019 source ↗

Judith Kerr British writer and illustrator

Nothing, really, because it was all interesting.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 May 2019 source ↗

Desmond Tutu Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984

I sent off the letter. I probably made a technical mistake by giving it to a journalist before hearing from the Prime Minister because this journalist was working for a Sunday newspaper and gave it enormous press, and I think quite rightly the Prime Minister was annoyed that I had not given him the opportunity but never mind.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗

Sara Pascoe English comedian, presenter, writer