We have people down to the house. The family came down. Saw my dad, which was really good because he'd hadn't had a month-long holiday in a long time. Actually, we went in for a spot of father/son bonding, which was very emotional. It was very neccessary and without being too cosmic I feel I'm much more of a whole person now. We get along really well like buddies. We've just never spent that much time together. Then he drove, against all advice, to Paris and we had a week there. We went to a few parties and night clubs and he was like, French woman have a lot of stlye, don't they?
How's the missus?
Why do you still bother doing all the band stuff when you could just nonce around?
What do you think of when you think of Q?
What do you think would surprise people most about you? Vegetarian? Homosexual?
When were you last truly gob-smacked?
Do you regret telling Q, "I'm a fucking great rock star"?
Name a man you fancy.
What's the most outrageous press you've read about yourself?
When was the last time you were blind drunk?
Did you let yourself down in any way?
Have you ever worried that you might be developing a drinking problem?
What's the best new record you've heard?
What's the worst lyric you've written?
What's the king of the vegetable kingdom? That's not, technically speaking, a vegetable. Could INXS handle themselves in a fight?
Could you have UB40?
Guns N' Roses?
How has your life changed in the last eight years?
Are you more evolved?
Are you a vain person?
Have you ever kissed a sheep?
Would you snog Morrissey for a pound?
A joke. What's brown and sticky?
A stick!
Tell us a joke.
Oh, she's ripping it up.
That's a bloody good question and I don't know why I bother. I'm going to quit today.
Information. I love it, you know. I've just recently become a voracious record-buyer, so when Q comes out every month, I just literally go through the reviews ticking what I want. Then i send a young nubile to pick it all up. A virgin at virgin.
Teetotal! I don't know. How fabulous I really am. That I'm not the shallow rosk star people assume I am. I'm a deep, caring, sensitive individual.
Um. Oh no, can't tell that one. Actually, I saw something the other night that amazed me. It was at a magic show and I'd never think of going to a magic show normally but we went to see David Copperfield's extravaganza and he was talking to this woman and as she was talking he took her head off and put it on a table and it continued talk and looking at him. I was maybe 40 feet away and I just couldn't beleive it. I asked him afterwards how he did it and he just stared striaght through me.
No do you think anyone who said something like that would ever regret it? I say a lot of things that I shouldn't have said. In fact, very often I don't even know I've said them. I just get informed and then get embarrassed.
Let's see now. Richard Burton. He was a pretty good bloke. Pretty fanciable. My kinda guy.
The first NME review of us at The Marquee. It was horrible, low and despicable and...probably right. I guess I had a little too much attitude for a little guy from Australia. Oh, and a quote in a paper from Kirk (Pengilly, INXS colleague) saying that he had a really good time at my wedding when I hadn't even got married. isn't that the height of bullshit? A fake quote from a fake wedding.
Monaco. The World's Music Awards, I think it was.
No comment. Yes. Apparently. I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it.
I enjoy drinking as much as I enjoy not drinking.
I really like the Oasis album. It's like an old-style album where you have a collection of singles, pop songs, as opposed to album tracks. there's no pretention to anything other than good songs. And they have good attitudes, or rather bad attitudes which is good attitude.
There's countless. The whole first album. tkae your pick. I thought they were pretty good at the time but when you look back, you realize that there's an awful lot of self-deceir going on. I was trying to be too interesting. Too oblique. I was equating obscurity with talent.
The banana!
Oh fuck no, its a fruit isn't it? The potato then. That's the boring answer. But in terms of top of the range tosser veg, art legumes, would have to be wild mushrooms. Porcine risotto. Lashing of it please. I thank you.
I think so, yes. We're quite handy.
(Laughs) From what I've heard, probably not, I could probably take on one or two of them.
For sure. Fucking pushover.
I've gone through personal changes in relationships and I've had revelations. Hopefully, I've wised up to certain things. And agreed to differ on others.
Yeah. God, I hope so. Know thyself. That's the hard thing and getting a perspective on yourself can be very hard but I'm getting there. Sometimes it's really not nice and sometimes it's just so different to what you thought it was. but it takes a long time. That's the lifetime Achievement Award.
I'm more of a blue wein person (laughs). I'm sorry. Welcome to Australia. To be honest, and this sounds stupid, but I don't think that much of my looks and vanity is thinking you look fabulous, isn't it?
Sure. It's the only reason you fuck them on their backs!
Of course I would. Like a shot. I'd do it for 50p! Helena would be proud of me. She's mad for Morrissey.
Brown and sticky, I dunno.
(Laughter) That's brilliant.A stick! Fuck that's a good joke. Really Australian.
How do we know Jesus was a Jew? Because he lived at home until he was 32, he thought his mother was a virgin, thought he was a god, and he started a family business that has been successful for 2,000 years. Boom fucking boom.