The question
What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
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My teenage years in the Runaways: I was still naive enough to think good things about the world and life and people, and I was having fun playing rock’n’roll around the world, living the dream.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 November 2020 source ↗
When the kids were babies.
When I was a child and a teenager, before I got discovered.
When I am working on something I really like, or when I am alone with my son playing in the garden.
Probably when our children were small, which is not to say I am unhappy now.
That my baseball team, Baltimore Orioles, is always in the basement.
Right after 9/11, Kenny and I went to perform for the troops in Pakistan and Uzbekistan. As we were flying in, an electronic voice went off: “Warning: missile launch! Warning: missile launch!” The Taliban had fired a rocket at us. I was waiting to see the back of the plane blow up, but it didn’t and we landed.
An astronaut, an archaeologist, an actor, and a musician.
Amazing Grace, on bagpipes.
My buddy Kenny Laguna. He’s a person of extraordinary character, he’s intelligent, and a very good friend.
I had a cafeteria job, serving food, and some people were really nasty. There was a stack of nice, cool plates, and a stack of hotter plates that had just come out of the kitchen. So, if a person was an arsehole, I’d hand them a hot plate with a smile and watch them deal with it.
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