Katie Melua: What do you fear most? — FLAPSS

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What do you fear most?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

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Katie Melua

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When I see older generations struggling with technology, I am afraid of it moving so quickly that I can’t use it.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2023 source ↗

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Waking up after a sleepover at John Waters’s house and finding my sleeping bag isn’t zipped up the same way as when I passed out. Or “President Palin.”

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2010 source ↗

Those abduction situations where you’re packed in a bunker for 30 years.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2024 source ↗

Any misfortune involving our kids. Also, I have recurring nightmares that involve being chased by people or being attacked by scary animals.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2026 source ↗

That I take this questionnaire too seriously and reveal my crimes and misdemeanors, or I treat this questionnaire too flippantly and bring shame to the House of Proust.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2014 source ↗

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Knowing everyone I love is always going to be healthy.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2023 source ↗

Question How would you sum yourself up in three words? Identity & self

Living a fairytale.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2023 source ↗

Question If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change? Failure & regret

I would have partied a little bit harder in my 20s.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2023 source ↗

Question When were you most embarrassed? Failure & regret

Forty-eight hours after giving birth, I sent a picture that someone had sent me of their baby to a WhatsApp group, thinking it was my son (they kind of looked similar). Mortifying.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2023 source ↗

Question What do you believe happens when we die? Death & what remains

I am so curious. We had my son christened because there may be a god but, equally, my partner is a science teacher, so I am also completely open to the possibility that nothing happens.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2023 source ↗

Question Which trait in yourself do you like least? Identity & self

I get distracted by anything and everything, so all my projects finish just before the deadline. Sometimes, it’s a bit too tight.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2023 source ↗

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