The question
What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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In bed this Saturday.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2017 source ↗
Pittsford, New York, writing my first book when our kids were small, riding my bike to work because we only had one car…that feeling of being needed and loved and vitally involved in something artistic that I didn’t fully understand, everything still lying ahead of us.
When George, Shirlie [the Wham! backing singer, whom Ridgeley dated] and I were knocking about as teenagers.
Right now. I am loving my children’s ages – Wyatt is nine and Levi is six – and I wish I could freeze time.
I would like to say right now, but probably childhood – though even that may be wrong, so I'll say six weeks ago walking in the Lakes.
My ability to stress myself out.
My wife (Borat voice).
Eating dan dan noodles with my wife.
The ability to stress me out.
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