The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.

What we try to do with all of our albums, is live out our musical fantasies in the most honest fashion we know how...We want to include songs that lyrically cover subjects ranging from the heaviest things we've ever done to light-hearted experiences that can best be presented through sentimental bluesy ballads that are usually good for a chuckle or two.

I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.

But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.

I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny.

I hate it when people lose it, there's nothing left because they're not interesting, they're boring, I hate it, and especially smack, people on smack are the most boring in the world.

INXS never had that groupie thing. No, no we really never did. Not in a sexual way -- well, alright, then, maybe years ago. I've done a few stupid things in my time, but you've got to have respect for yourself, otherwise you end up getting used.

You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while -- it's weird.

Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a side of me, which is indulgent and I expect certain things because of my position. It's one of the perks.

There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen.

We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town -- places that made Mad Max territory look like a Japanese garden.

There is an integrity to INXS, in the music, that makes it worthwhile.

Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.

But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.

Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that.

I still haven't come to grips with our success.

Kylie Minogue -- she's so great. You'd love her if you met her. Everyone would. In a way I wish everyone could, to see what a person she is. She's so sweet and no bull and really funny, man, really funny. The Rolling Stones are like a weight around your neck. All that..'you're not meant to rock after you're 30...you've got to die in a car crash or of a drug overdose.

I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes.

I know who I am and what I do.