Michael Hutchence Quotes

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

By: Michael Hutchence

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

By: Michael Hutchence

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... view

By: Michael Hutchence

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... view

By: Michael Hutchence

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... view

By: Michael Hutchence

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

By: Michael Hutchence

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

By: Michael Hutchence

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... view

By: Michael Hutchence

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... view

By: Michael Hutchence

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... view

By: Michael Hutchence

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... view

By: Michael Hutchence

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... view

By: Michael Hutchence

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... view

By: Michael Hutchence

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

By: Michael Hutchence

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

By: Michael Hutchence

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

By: Michael Hutchence

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

By: Michael Hutchence

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

By: Michael Hutchence

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

By: Michael Hutchence

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... view

By: Michael Hutchence

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

By: Michael Hutchence

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

By: Michael Hutchence

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... view

By: Michael Hutchence

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

By: Michael Hutchence

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

By: Michael Hutchence