Part 2 Who is Chris Corner the man behind the music
1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being comfortable doing things of no significance
2. What is your greatest extravagance?
Womans shoes. I am addicted.
3. What is your current state of mind?
Brittle.
4. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Obsessive guilt.
5. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Passive aggression
6. What do you consider the most over-rated virtue?
Generosity
7. What is your favorite occupation?
Architect
8. What is your most marked characteristic?
Social anxiety
9. What do you value most in your friends?
Patience
10. When and where were you happiest?
In the womb
11. What do you dislike most about your appearance?
My feet
12. Which living person do you most despise?
The head of Universal Records, whoever that is.
13. On what occasion do you lie?
When the self inflicted future pain caused by the lie is not greater than the pain caused by it to others.
14. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
My work and the joy of others.
15. Which talent would you most like to have?
To know circus tricks of every kind.
16. If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?
The time it takes to think clearly enough to do an interview
17. What is your most treasured possession?
My little rundown GDR palace in Berlin
18. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
The death of a life partner or the perpetuation of ignorance.
19. Who are your favorite writers?
Herman Hesse, Bertolt Brecht. Dylan Thomas, Jeanette Winterson
20. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Peter Pan
21. Who are your heroes in real life?
My band and Managers
22. What are your favorite names?
No idea. Erm. lets say, Sebastian , Felix , Bernadette.
23. What is it that you most dislike?
Insomnia
24.. What do you consider you greatest achievement?
Living off the creativity that i love to do.
25. If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?
A dog
26. Where would you like to live?
In the in-between.
27. How would you like to die?
Being aware of it.
28. What is your greatest regret?
Still working on it
29. What is your motto?
Become aware of your strengths and weaknesses and be really good at something.