Minnie, this is such a good idea. I love the questions and they do draw out a frighteningly

confessional quality because they're tough ones to grapple with. Are they adapted Proust questions?

It was the concept of the Proustian questionnaire. I've always loved it. It's what I would turn to

in the back of Vanity Fair. But I needed to modify them because there were other things that I wanted to ask.

I feel that really specific questions can elicit answers to questions other than the ones asked, if you see what I mean.

I'm Mini Driver and I have questions. In fact, everything I've done in my career, acting, music, writing, I've done to investigate

the human experience, because there's so much we don't know and so much that defies our

understanding.

In my new podcast, mini-questions, I wanted to dig a bit deeper.

So I put together a little experiment.

I wanted to ask trailblazers across different disciplines the same seven questions.

Questions about what made them happy, what they're curious about, what love means to them.

With each episode presenting a new guest, a new data point in this great experiment.

I wanted a musician's perspective, so I called up Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters.

What person, place, or experience most altered your life?

I would have to say the first time I saw a band play on a stage.

And it was a band called Naked Raygun.

They were like an infamous punk rock band.

I was in this dark bar that smelled like bleach and beer.

And they started playing.

And like my chest was against the stage and their sweat was on me.

I was getting thrown around like people with mohawks.

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