The question
What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Surviving the music industry. I think it’s been responsible for killing a lot of musicians. Lots of us have mental health issues, and drink and drug problems, and the industry doesn’t really care.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 May 2019 source ↗
Aside from the night that my wife said yes, creating Riverdance and Lord of the Dance, and employing thousands of dancers for the last 30 years.
I feel lucky to have been in this business for as long as I have. When I think of the intake that I was with at Rada, only one other person is still an actor, an old fellow called Bill Gaunt.
Earning a living as an actor for 40 years.
My friendships.
British summers give me a really happy feeling. My bedroom at our family home in Harrow looks out on to our garden and a cricket field, and you just know when it’s the first day of summer.
That all the cliches about people in the music industry are true.
I had heart surgery when I was 17. The other time was when I fell off my piano. My head was an inch away from a metal step.
Everyone I ever met in 2007, because I was definitely about two hours late.
My mum, because she’s been a nurse for over 40 years. She works in a hospice, and there’s no bullshit with her.
Laura Mvula, Jim Kerr, Bryn Terfel, Belinda Carlisle, Adam Lambert, Jennifer Hudson
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