Mary McCartney: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

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.

Recorded Mary McCartney said elsewhere, not written here

Through food, I’ve become more interested in the protection of soil, the way things are grown, and biodiversity. I’d have become a quantum physicist!

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 February 2022 source ↗

Others on this question

View all 205 →

Kiefer Sutherland British and Canadian actor

I would take things a little slower.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2017 source ↗

Ronnie O'Sullivan English snooker player

I would go back to when I was 14 and keep to my own style of playing snooker. I was perfect, but I didn’t think I was, so I started playing like everybody else and created bad habits. With a little more time, I could have been the ultimate player. I look at my career and I probably got 75% out of it instead of 100%.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2023 source ↗

Andy Roddick American tennis player

I’d love to have won Wimbledon.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 June 2015 source ↗

Björn Ulvaeus Swedish musician

My surname. You have no idea how many versions I’ve read and heard. It was especially irritating during my Abba years. You can imagine someone calling our hotel and saying: “I’d like to speak to one of the guys in Abba.” Who do you think the receptionist called, Andersson or Ulvaeus?

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2020 source ↗