Michael Hutchence

I know who I am and what I do.

— Michael Hutchence

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

— Michael Hutchence

Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally…

— Michael Hutchence

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

— 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,…

— Michael Hutchence

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Michael Hutchence

What we try to do with all of our albums, is live out our musical fantasies in the most honest fashion we…

— 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…

— Michael Hutchence

It's so strange how my life's changed; I know nothing about the people that I touch.

— Michael Hutchence

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

— Michael Hutchence

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

— 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…

— Michael Hutchence

We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a…

— Michael Hutchence

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

— Michael Hutchence

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

— Michael Hutchence

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

— 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…

— Michael Hutchence

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

— Michael Hutchence

Cause we all have wings But some of us don't know why

— Michael Hutchence

INXS never had that groupie thing. No, no we really never did. Not in a sexual way - well, alright, then, maybe…

— 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— Michael Hutchence