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

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

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.

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.

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