Magazine Articles > The Face Interview - Part 3

<<< Can you describe your relationship with Dave in one word?
Well, I don't think telepathic is the word though things can be unspoken between us and still completely communicative. Over the years we've developed such a fine sense of intuition about what we like, what is valid, what is hot or essential in musical terms. We are very comfortable together. Me and Dave like to think of ourselves as twins. Quite some time before this gender-bender business, we both went to a very ordinary gent's tailor and had identical suits made. It made us feel like a unit.
Very Gilbert and George.
Yes it was very much with that in mind. I wasn't trying to bend my gender. Americans cottoned on to it more than was anticipated. (To the extent that MTV apparently agreed to show the "Love Is A Stranger" video only after Annie produced legal documents proving that she, not a transvestite, starred in it.)
Has man-drag become a plain drag?
Not for me. I expected the media to pick up on something. Actually, I decided to take it to the hilt when we were invited to appear on the Grammy Awards this year (Eurythmics were nominated for "Sweet Dreams) so I went as a man (the greaser from the "Who's That Girl" video) to give the American public what it wanted. A few intelligent people got the joke. We didn't want to be on the Grammies in the first place. Why not? Because it's very much a dinner jacket and bow-tie affair where people who have been very anti the system become self- congratulatory backpatters. We wanted to go as Eurythmics per se, not 'carrot-topped Annie Lennox'.
Do you think that your face will be remem- bered as an Icon of the Eighties?
I don't think I'm that famous. I think George will be (they shared a Newsweek cover) but if I disappear tomorrow not many people would remember me. And I wouldn't really care. I just want the music we make now to connect with people. I think it does; I think, if I analyse it, the reason why we've been success- ful is because Eurythmics music is accessible land intelligent. What we say has a sense of profundity and intelligence. But I don't think it matters if it lasts or doesn't last. Nothing lasts. I don't mean the public acclaim. The temperature could drop from 100 to zero in a minute - it probably will since we've been elevated and we're due for a push. I mean that I see the whole of life as a very, very temporary thing: you're born, you grow up, you grow old, you die.
Have you always been so philosophical?
Yes, from a very early age, although I still cling to the past and my emotions. I think everyone is too attached, whether it be to a girlfriend, cigarettes or living in Birmingham. There are a million attachments in the world.
You told an American paper that "white Western people are spiritually starved...ethnic groups may suffer starvation, deprivation but they don't suffer alienation." Have you always felt the need for a spiritual ideology?
Always. . . I've had a lot of notions, some change, some don't. Obviously one's ideas are related to one's own perceptions so if one sees things in a very materialistic way - this is my work, this is my wife, this is my house - they are the sum total of the things around one. I don't see myself like that. My quest is to get to the core of my existence. There was a period when everybody was talking about gurus and going to India. I was too young to be a hippy >>>