Michael Hutchence Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Cause we all have wings But some of us don't know why

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.

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

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

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I know who I am and what I do.

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

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.

It's so strange how my life's changed; I know nothing about the people that I touch.

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

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

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

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