Proust Questionnaire

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness? Playing catch

2. What is your greatest fear? Deep water

3. Which historical figure do you most identify with? Rasputin

4. Which living person do you most admire? Chuck Close

5. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Invisibility

6. What is the trait you most deplore in others? Obviousness

7. What is your greatest extravagance? My music collection

8. What is your favourite journey? That around the base-paths

9. On what occasion do you lie? When it makes for a better story

10. What do you dislike most about your appearance? My entire head

11. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? “Cool”

12. What is your greatest regret? Never learning to swim

13. What or who is the greatest love of your life? Baseball

14. When and where were you happiest? As a kid on the baseball field

15. Which talent would you most like to have? Mind reading

16. If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be? That it was closer knit

17. What do you consider your greatest achievement? Surviving the first few months of my life

18. If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be? A girl

19. If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be? A bird

20. What is your most treasured possession? My health

21. What is your favourite occupation? Recording music

22. What is your most marked characteristic? My hands

23. What is the quality you most like in a man? Empathy

24. What is the quality you most like in a woman? Same as for a man

25. What do you most value in your friends? Honesty

26. Who are your heroes in real life? Bums

27. What is it you most dislike? Cowardice

28. How would you like to die? In my sleep

29. What is your motto? “Hit ‘em where they ain’t”