Michael Hutchence
Michael Hutchence
Michael Kelland John Hutchencewas an Australian musician and actor. He was a founding member, lead singer and lyricist of rock band INXS from 1977 until his death in 1997. He was a member of short-lived pop rock group Max Q and recorded solo material which was released posthumously. He acted in feature films, including Dogs in Space, Frankenstein Unboundand Limp. According to rock music historian, Ian McFarlane, "Hutchence was the archetypal rock showman. He exuded an overtly sexual, macho cool...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth22 January 1960
CountryAustralia
There's a certain point where you have to choose whether you're going to be a cliche or whether you're going to discover new things about yourself.
I am of the belief that every couple thousand years someone comes along like Buddha and goes, hey this is what it is! And everybody goes Wow!
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.
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
The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping
I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it
We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a Japanese garden.
I still haven't come to grips with our success.
It's so strange how my life's changed; I know nothing about the people that I touch.
I know who I am and what I do.
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
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 manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press