At the beginning of December Darren Hayes visited Europe to
promote his debute album. Olga Tretiakova met with ex-frontman of the most popular
australian band Savage Garden and asked him few questions.
NME: What you were
doing in your childhood, when in was raining outside?
Darren: Usually I was running to the street to walk under the rain. I was jumping on the
puddles... Of course I catched cold
NME: What was the
first thing you purchased on you own money?
Darren: Star Wars figure.
NME: What would you
do if you'd become the God for the 5 minutes?
Darren: I'd make the whole world to be one country, and there would be no continents. Then
all people should learn to live together.
NME: Is there any
defect in your appearance that you'd like to change?
Darren: In my appearence? (Darren is very surprized). No, I think everything in me is
ideal. Probably, when I was younger, I wanted to look differently, to change myself in
some way. But now I understand that there's no need to change anything, because beauty -
it is not something external, not just appearance, it is something inside you. So if I
would be in peace with myself, I would look good. That's why my beauty is not just my
resilient ass or my beautiful eyes, it is combination of external and internal things. Do
you understand what I mean?
NME: If you'd be a
woman, whom you'd fall in love with?
Darren: Darren Hayes *grin*
NME: Have you ever
been detained by police and why?
Darren: Once I was almost arrested for exeeding allowed speed. I just bought my car then,
and I was driving from San Francisco to Los Angeles. I haven't realised how fast I was
driving the car. But police was very angry on me, because I was driving very very fast.
They even wanted to arrest me, not just fine me. But everything turned out alright.
NME: What do you do
when you depressed?
Darren: Eat chocolate. Do shopping.
NME: And it really
helps?
Darren: Yes!
NME: Who's more
frightful: pokemon or teletubby?
Darren: Pokemon. They are ugly. Teletubbies are pretty at least, they look like children.
And pokemones are like very strange space cats! I hate pokemones!
NME: What is your
first thought when you wake up?
Darren: The first thing I think of is what I can eat now.
NME: Do you believe
in omens?
Darren: Yes I do. I trust my own intuition. I think you should trust your inner voice - it
won't advice something bad. For example, when your hair stood on end, or it's shivering in
your spine - it's a bad sign, definalty. I believe in such things.
NME: What was the
most pleasant and most amazing thing ever happened to you?
Darren: I think it was when I took my sister's newborn baby in my hands for the first
time. It was the most pleasant thing. And the most amazing too.
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