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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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