Michael Hutchence Quotes

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

2. I am of the belief that every couple thousand years someone comes along like Buddha and goes, hey this is what it is! And everybody goes Wow!

3. All these scars are mine.



4. There's a certain point where you have to choose whether you're going to be a cliche or whether you're going to discover new things about yourself.

5. 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.

6. Most of the songs on "Underneath the Colors" were written in a relatively short space of time. Most bands shudder at the prospect of having 20 years to write their first album and four days to write their second. For us, though, it was good. It left less room for us to go off on all sorts of tangents.



7. There's a self loathing that makes you take excessive unnatural drugs and just lately I've come to realize that I can do without them.

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

9. 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.

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

11. Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

12. We'd have to s*ck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.

13. 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.

14. 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.


15. 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.

16. 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.



17. 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.

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

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

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

21. I know who I am and what I do.



22. I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good.

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

24. I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it.

25. (on Mick Jagger) 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.

26. It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

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

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


29. Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.

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

31. 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.




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