Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2017 source ↗
I wanted to perform in some way, but I didn’t think it was viable. Teachers told me I should be a barrister, because I was always arguing with them.
That rather assumes I have grown up.
I just wanted to work in music. I didn’t want a real job.
A baseball pitcher.
I’ve had cancer three times, but never felt close to death except when I walked between parked cars on my street and a car sped past my nose.
I haven’t done it yet.
Dr Denis Mukwege, because he is to sexualised violence against females what Mandela was to apartheid.
Dying just a millisecond before I was about to say something I really wanted the people I love to hear.
I’m walking down a street in New York, the sun is shining, I’m on my way to see friends who are chosen family—and I’ve just written a couple of pages that I like.
As someone who left the world around me a little kinder and less hierarchical.
Emma Barnett, Jon Sopel, Edmund Hillary, John Prescott, Sonia Sotomayor, Clive Myrie
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