Fierce Creatures - Lime Magazine

LIME : Some one once described you two as "chalk and cheese". Who's the chalk and who's the cheese ?
DANIEL : Ahh.... I'll be chalk today .
DARREN: All right . I'll be cheese . Very unwillingly though .(Laughs)An American reporter wrote that . He was trying to say that we're two very different people from two very different backgrounds , with two very distinct personalities and very different looking ,too . Musically , Daniel writes mainly instrumental pieces and I write lyrics and melody . We have very distinct roles within the band . Chalk and cheese was just a very bad way of describing it !

LIME : So it's not that one of you is cheesier than the other !
DANIEL : No . I don't think I'm a piece of chalk .

LIME : Are you best friends ?
DANIEL : I don't think you should have one best friend . You should have three or four best friends .
DARREN : I have two very serious relationships in my life , and this is one of them . But for me , my best friend is the person I love and want to spend the rest of my life with .

LIME : What are some of the things that drive you crazy about each other , and the things that keep you together ?
DARREN : I think the answer you want is that my feet smell and Daniel picks his nose , but neither of them are true . We have a really serious working relationship and a friendship we respect . It's been five years .
DANIEL : I think Darren is extremely talented and we can sit and talk about what we want to create for hours upon hours upon hours . We have the same vision and know what we want to achieve . DARREN : What I like about Daniel is that he does all the things that I can't do . I hear these pieces in this song and I'll hand it over to him and he'll turn it into something amazing .

LIME : Tell us about some of the things you two really want , but don't really need .
DARREN : A waverunner . Heh heh ! I've been eyeing that baby on display in the hotel .
DANIEL : I want a helicopter . I'm sick of cars and traffic .
DARREN : Things I don't really need , right ? 'Cos I need a holiday ! ( Thinks for a moment ) My private little Neverland with cinemas and stuff !
DANIEL : My family .
DARREN : You know what ? I think I have everything I need already . I don't want anything I don't need .

LIME : C'mon , you don't mean that .......
DARREN : It's true ! I can live up to your cliches and tell you this carrer is tough . The truth is I'm being paid for doing what I love , travelling around the world and having a ball . And getting a crack at sucess .
DANIEL : What we're ultimately after is to put out a really good touring show and play to as many people as we can .
DARREN : It's such a satisfying feeling . You feel like you did when you were 10 years old and you put a cape on your back and pretended to be Gene Simmons from KISS ! Only now you're being paid to it !

LIME : Have you guys sometimes been mistaken for a boyband ?
DANIEL : No.Our first song , "I Want You ", is a good introduction to the band . We don't want to force the point about not being a boyband or being a boyband . It's not about telling somebody what you are , it's up to them to decide .
DARREN : It would be horribly desperate for us to stand up and say ,"Look , this is what we do!" You don't have to be too intelligent to work it out that we write all our own songs . We actually produced our own record - and neither of us can dance !
DANIEL : And ........ we get pimples !