The question
What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
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In the hospital when my children were born.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2021 source ↗
Were? I'm happiest right now!
Childhood, up until the age of seven, when my sister died.
During the first week or two of lockdown. We didn’t know what was coming and it didn’t feel dangerous at that point; there was just a real sense of family and hunkering down.
When I had my first kid and when I had my first big success with I Gotta Feeling.
A plate of fettuccine ragù with my kids.
I’m a perfectionist; it’s boring.
To overcook that plate of fettuccine.
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