The question
What keeps you awake at night?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
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Scottish singer and songwriter; lead vocalist of Garbage
Climate change. That is the single most important calamity in the making that I obsess over.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 May 2022 source ↗
Infinity. I can’t get my head round it.
Things I said in interviews.
Getting older and dying.
Our son. And ideas for Woman’s Hour, or businesses to start.
A ballerina. I remain rather disappointed that I became a rock star instead.
Myself. I have never been harder on anyone else.
It was such a beautiful summer’s night and I had pink hair and my band was doing really well and my mum was there, my mum was still alive. It was very magical for me and to get the honour of my city, to be blessed by their respect, it was delicious.
My dog’s trust in me.
Greta Thunberg, a brightly coloured little bird in a coalmine, desperately sounding the alarm for others while laying her childhood to waste.
Like a cosy cloud of softness coupled with an orthopaedic mattress underneath.
Andi Oliver, Rita Wilson, Gloria Estefan, kd lang, Bryan Adams, Imelda Staunton
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