Smash Hits Magazine - 18 - 31 May 1988

Well, if it was a restaurant I'd call the waiter over and tell him there was a cockroach in the salad and hope they would offer to pay for everybody's dinner. And if I was round somebody's house I would tell them too. I'm a pretty honest person and I don't really beat around the bush for anybody. I tell it like it is. I would just say 'there's a cockroach in my salad' and I'd suggest that maybe they ought to check everybody else's salad. I'm sure they would be pretty embarrassed but I'd still say it. It's never happened to me at a friend's house but I've had it happen to me at a restaurant before and I've been offered food on the house. I suppose I could bring my own cockroaches along - that would save me a lot of money. Do I eat the rest of the salad? Er, no. I eat the new salad, but I'm sure they check that one pretty carefully.

No. That's too disgusting. It wouldn't be worth it to me. If I miss brushing my teeth for just one night I have nightmares that my teeth are falling out so I think that not brushing my teeth for three months would be pretty horrendous. If I had no money? I might think differently. I don't know. In my situaation at the moment there's no way in the world and it's not that I'm real rich, I just can't even fathom not being clean. In the past I could, yes. When I was growing up I hated taking baths. I was a real tomboy. My mother would fill up the bathtub and say 'hey, now, take a bath' and I'd close the door behind me and I'd swish around the water with my hand and then I'd walk out of the bathroom. It was just a phase I went through. I didn't really care about that sort of thing then. Now I'm almost phobic about showers and baths. You say Prince is sacred of hotel bathtubs? Well, I can understand that. I wouldn't take a bath in a hotel room. You never really know how clean the tub actually is. I'd take a shower but never sit myself down.

I have a tendency to be superstitious and stuff - I don't think I'd stay in but I would take precautions and be extra careful about where I am and where I walk. I was once told to be careful because I was going to get in a car accident. It was on the freeway, I wasn't looking and I smashed into the back of somebody's car. It wasn't bad but I thought it was kind of spooky. Also, there've been a couple of times when I've had an intuition that I shouldn't be doing something today and something has happened. I've learned through all that to follow my own intuition about things. I go to a psychic in West Hollywood twice a year. It's sort of personal but she's very accurate about certain things. I wanted to buy this house by the ocean and I walked in and she said 'forget about it - you don't want to live down there' - I didn't even tell her. She said 'you're not going to end up by the beach, you're going to end up in the hills'. The house fell through that day and six months later I ended up in my house in the hills. It never really surprises me because I think there's something to all that. It intriques me and amazes me but it never really scares me.

I probably would. I'm active in a lot of animal rights groups in the States and I'm real synpathetic to Greenpeace so I probably would. I'd probably be in pain but if it was saving the Blue Whale I think that I would feel great about it, that I'd been personally involved in helping save that particular breed. It wouldn't ruin my life - I'd get false ones. I could live with that; plenty of people do.

No, I could never do that. I don't eat meat anyway. If I was starving I would eat grass or leaves or something. I could never eat my own pet. Would I eat lamb chops? I don't know. Maybe I would if it was the last resort, but I'd eat leaves off an entire tree before I ate that.

Yeah, I probably would and I'd probably hang on. (Stop cheating - Ed) Oh. Well, it'd be tough for both of us. If only one of us could live I don't really know what I'd do. My best friend would actually probably be my husband and if it was my husband I'd probably give him the lifejacket because I'd rather be dead than live without him. That sounds really corny but it's true. Mind you, he'd probably insist on giving it to me, so we'd both drown.

To his pig? Yes, probably. I think anybody would. Can a pig enjoy ten million dollars? Maybe I'd wait till the pig died and make sure the pig left the money to me. (?????) Though if it was the relative's wish then you should probably adhere to the wish though it seems senseless. If the relative was such an animal lover though, just think what you could do with all that money for animal groups.

No, I could never do that. I'd feel too guilty. I have a few people who I really, really don't like but I couldn't live with myself, however much I hated them. I've said before 'I wish they'd just curl up and die' but if that ever happened I'd feel awful. I know at school I made an excuse by saying a relative died and I always feared that actually happening. I'd say 'my grandfather died' - I think my grandfather died five or six times.

Yeah, as long as I could sit down once in a while. It would be pretty annoying, especially when I had to jog, and it'd be really horrible. Having to walk into restaurants and not knowing who's sitting there in case I wanted to avoid anybody would be annoying. And people could talk behind your back pretty easily, couldn't they? And it'd be pretty hard running across stage backwards. Though maybe that would add a little bit...(?)

I'd say it looks terrible on them. I would expect someone to tell me. I'm honest; I don't like to see my friends looking like jerks. I know people are sensitive but I've always been honest, maybe even sometimes to the point of being hurtful, only because I care about that person. I wore something this weekend that friends told me they didn't think I should have worn. It was just oversized huge cut-downs and a really baggy t-shirt and sloppy tennis shoes and socks onstage - everyone was horrified I wore that. I said I was comfortable - I know it looks horrible - but I was glad people told me. I don't wear it onstage anymore.

Well, I wouldn't cook pork but anyway if it was someone I really hated I wouldn't let them bring them into my house. Why put myself under that kind of strain and pressure? I don't do anything that I don't want to do. If my friends were bringing somebody I didn't like I would say I preferred them not coming.

No, I don't think so. I don't know. Maybe I'd cheat. I'd really be pissed off and really frustrated but I don't think I'd do that. I'm really competitive - I always have been. I don't get annoyed anymore, though I used to. I used to play on the girls' basketball team at high school and I know that when we'd lose I'd let it ruin my whole day.

I'd encourage him to jump. I personally don't care for him too much. (Thinks a bit) I wouldn't really - I just said that off the top of my head - I wouldn't want to see anybody jump. I'd ask him 'why?" He might have a reason. He puts himself under a lot of pressure with the success he's had. In my darkest hours of success I've had pretty dark thoughts. Sometimes you feel you don't deserve it and you look around and see a lot of people resenting you and you can feel real terrible. The first time I had success with the Go-Go's (Belinda's old group) I didn't handle it well at all so I sabotaged my success, my happiness, everything about myself. Now I feel that I deserve it, I don't take it for granted and I'm enjoying it. I learnt the hard way and I don't plan to repeat the mistakes.