Michael hutchence

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

We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.

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

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...

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.

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.

We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage.

I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press.

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.

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