ROBERT PALMER : Music & Style

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Robert Palmer: Sun, sea, love and no appointments.

What is your greatest fear?

RP: Fear.

With which historical figure do you most identify?

RP: Unspiek (Baron Bodissey) a philosopher from the 23rd aeon whose chronicles, Life, happen to have fallen into my possession and whose world views I greatly admire. (Palmer is referring to the author of a philosophical encyclopedia called Life in Jack Vance's science fiction saga The Demon Princes).

Which person do you most admire?

RP: David Attenborough. He loves what he does; he does it well and he's best at it.

What is the trait you deplore most in yourself?

RP: Intolerance.

What is the trait you deplore most in others?

RP: Intolerance.

What vehicles do you own?

RP: None.

What is your greatest extravagance?

RP: Signed first editions.

What objects do you always carry with you?

RP: Keys, lighter, money, cigarettes, pen-knife, handkerchief.

What makes you most depressed?

RP: Failing to come up to my own expectations.

What do you most dislike about your appearance?

RP: Good living has blurred my once taut outline.

What is your most unappealing habit?

RP: Dissimulation.

What is your favourite smell?

RP: Woman.

What is your favourite word?

RP: Yes.

What is your favourite building?

RP: Duomo, Milan.

What is your favourite journey?

RP: Lugano to Venice by air and motoscafo.

What is the greatest love of your life?

RP: Music.

Which living person do you most despise and why?

RP: The wake-up call operator.

What do you consider the most overrated virtue?

RP: Virginity.

On what occasions do you lie?

RP: When absolutely necessary.

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

RP: One more time. One, two, three, four.

What is your greatest regret?

RP: Not being able to answer this question.

When and where were you happiest?

RP: 1986 Point Reyes, N. California.

How do you relax?

RP: It's a miracle.

What single thing would improve the quality of your life?

RP: A cheque for a billion dollars.

What talent would you most like to have?

RP: Clairvoyance.

What would your motto be?

RP: Belief insults the mind. A thing is so or it is not.

What keeps you awake at night?

RP: Ideas for songs which come unbidden into my mind and don't go away.

How would you like to die?

RP: During 'le petit mort'.

How would you like to be remembered?

RP: Often, with a smile.

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