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 don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

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

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

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.

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.

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.

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