Tim Rice
English lyricist and author
I would definitely change the way one or two relationships ended.
If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Question
What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
Question
What most recently made you cry?
Identity & self
Question
What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
Question
What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
Question
When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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.
I would put the brain that I have now into my 20-year-old body.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 July 2023 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 203 →
Kim Wilde
English pop singer
There are several boyfriends I wish our paths had not crossed.
Sadiq Khan
Mayor of London since 2016
I would have had more time with my dad before he passed away.
Russell Howard
British comedian and presenter
I wouldn’t lose my virginity at an army camp and then roll over on to an ants’ nest.
More from Melanie Blatt
View profile →“Your career will be over if you have the baby.”To whom would you most like to say sorry, and why? My parents, for my teenage years. I tried to run away when I was 15. We lived in a fishing village in France and, with my boyfriend, I headed to Spain to sell arts and crafts on the beach. Mum came and took me home.
I haven’t stopped crying since Glastonbury, because I’m on a massive comedown.
Just being remembered at all would be great.
Horrible gigs at the beginning, when no one’s interested.
Now, with time and wisdom you know your happy places.
More on failure & regret
- What has been your biggest disappointment? 366 answers
- Who most deserves an apology from you, and why? 209 answers
- What is the worst thing anyone has said to you? 122 answers
- Which moment embarrassed you most? 122 answers
- How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure? 69 answers
- What is the hardest thing that has happened to you, and what did you carry out of it? 36 answers
Also answered this
kd lang, Beverley Knight, Tim Minchin, Rita Ora, Shaznay Lewis, James Bay
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All failure & regret questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject