Q1. Which do you generally prefer, people or other animals? Why?
A. I love animals, but love people more. For example, I can’t sit down with a dog or cat and expect them to answer these questions! My life is made incredible by the creative talents of people making movies, making music, creating art, writing stories and inventing mobile phones. I love people for enriching my life!

Q2. Do you believe there is life beyond planet Earth? Why? Or why not?
A. On the one hand, there are billions of other stars out there with their own planetary systems, millions of which would be suitable for life. On the other hand, despite all our scientific expertise, we still don’t know how to create life from primitive molecules. We don’t know if life is a once-off statistical fluke or an inevitable result in any suitable environment. So I don’t know…

Q3. Which of these two would you find the most appealing for tonight – going home to relax, or going out and meeting someone new and exciting, the kind of person your mother may have disapproved of?
A. Meeting someone new and exciting. I can relax any old time.

Q4. What do you believe is the secret to someone looking young for their age?
A. Doing things they love, being content with their life, having insatiable curiosity about their world – and trying new things each day.

Q5. If it was New Year’s Day today, what resolution would you make? Why not make the same resolution today, right now?
A. Love more. I hereby make that resolution today, right now!

Q6. When you and your partner are making out, do you secretly fantasise about someone else?
A. I used to, back when I was unenlightened about sex and in a twenty year monogamous relationship. Not since then.

Q7. Do you think modern Social Media is a blessing or a curse? Why?
A. I think it is very dangerous, especially now that Meta (Facebook) wants us to live in a virtual world where they can monitor and control our lives.

Q8. Do you think it is important to maintain regular contact with your friends, even if they are far away?
A. Not really. I find that I can pick up where I left off with my friends, without any diminution in the strength of friendship we have for each other.

Q9. If you had only one month to live, what would you do with your remaining life? What stops you from doing those things today?
A. I would hold a never-ending party at a friend’s rainforest property and invite all my friends to come and camp there for a while and share in music, dance, food, swimming, walks, talk, TED-style workshops, creative workshops, erotic workshops and lovemaking.

What stops me today? I do attend these kinds of events but they are of a shorter duration.

Q10. What music would you like played at your funeral?
A. Bach’s “Ich Ruf Zu Dir” BWV 639, a piece of music that comes straight from heaven.

Q11. What is the most beautiful sight you have ever seen?
A. The Victoria Falls, also known as ‘Mosi-oa-Tunya’ – ‘The Smoke that Thunders’, from 20km away approaching in a light plane. Or the planet Saturn showing its tilted rings through a telescope. Or Michelangelo’s statue of David in Florence. Or the sculptures of Rodin. Or the minimally clad body of woman full of Eros. Ask me tomorrow and it will be something different!

Q12. What religion or spirituality do you identify with, if any?
A. I believe that there is a universal consciousness that joins us all in Love and that we manifest a local ecosystem of matter from this universal mind.

Q13. Do you think it is possible that people will, one day, be able to live forever? If so, do you want to be one of those people?
A. Yes, I do believe that people will one day be able to live forever. It will happen once medical advances add more than one month of lifespan each month.

Yes, i do want to be one of those people, I believe I can adapt to enjoy it.

Q14. What is your secret sexual fantasy?
A. Well, it wouldn’t be secret if I disclosed it here! Perhaps something exhibitionist and outdoors…

Q15. If you won twenty million dollars in the lottery, what would you do with the money?
A. I’d gift money anonymously to my friends and family. I’d gift money to creative people so that they could spend less time doing menial jobs and more time creating. I’d buy a nice airplane, perhaps a Cirrus SR-22. I’d upgrade my telescope and night photography equipment.

Q16. What do you believe causes the feeling we know as déjà vu?
A. I believe that the future already exists just like the past, in what physicists call “block time”. Déjà vu involves literally travelling in time to the future to create a memory of it, and then recalling that memory later on when encountering that point in time.

Q17. What society taboos do you most want to break?
A. The shame and prohibitions around nudity and sex.

Q18. Do you believe you can consciously manifest something you want in your life? If you could, what would you want to manifest into your life right now?
A. Yes, as long as what you manifest is good for the universal mind. For me, I’d want to manifest joyous creativity in all the people around me.

Q19. What do you believe is the most pressing problem facing the world right now?
A. I believe the most pressing problem is the reduction in the artistic output of genius proportions like used to happen with Bach, Beethoven and the Beatles in music, or Monet, Van Gogh and Picasso in painting. Nowadays much of the new music and new art seems derivative rather than new and exciting.

Q20. If you had a choice between being tied up naked by your partner or tying them up naked, which would you prefer?
A. Tough choice!

Q21. Where in the whole world would you most like to be, right now?
A. In a Game Park in Africa, surrounded by an abundance of wildlife.

Q22. If you were a world leader, what things would you want to do in order to change the world?
A. Support creativity, local community, clothing optional and sex positivity. Ban glass bottles and glass drinking receptacles to reduce injuries. Legalise mind-altering drugs to reduce crime.

Q23. If/when you die, how would you like your body to be disposed of?
A. If it was allowed, to be dropped into the ocean for sharks to feed upon. But otherwise I’d like to be buried in a place where people can visit and remember me.

Q24. What are you most addicted to?
A. Curiosity about the world around me, women and nutty chocolate.

Q25. If you could go back in time and say one thing to your eight year old self, what would it be?
A. To give voice to his emerging poetic creativity, to let it flourish in his youth and not bury it until he is middle aged.

Q26. Describe your perfect day.
A. Love making to start the day, learning something new, publishing a book of my poems, surfing beautiful waves in warm water, gifting someone a sight-seeing flight in my plane, hosting a BBQ with friends, looking up at the night sky through a telescope and more love making to end the day.

Q27. Have you ever engaged in mind-altering drugs? If so, how did it feel?
A. Only once when someone gave me MDMA at a party. It did not seem to affect me alas.

Q28. What was your most embarrassing moment ever?
A. Not being able to get home in time when coming back from primary school and pooing in my pants.

Q29. What is the most likely thing you could win “Australian Of The Year” for?
A. Supporting creative people with money to live on and social hubs to gather at.

Q30. Do you believe we should be looking to inhabit other planets, such as Mars? Why? Or why not?
A. Yes. Because without this adventuring spirit, humans would have withered and perished in the rift valleys of Africa. Exploring other planets (and eventually other star systems) will enrichen the human race.

Q31. If you could have a second home, where would it be?
A. On the remote and beautiful Ningaloo Reef coastline or else somewhere with history and art like Tuscany or Venice or Barcelona.

Q32. If you could go without sleep without any adverse health effects, what would you do with the extra time?
A. Write a screenplay for a movie. Write a poetry anthology. Do Five Rhythms dance with others.

Q33. Do you prefer to be approached, or to be the one doing the approaching? Why?
A. I’m happy with either!

Q34. What is your best ice-breaker when meeting an attractive stranger who you want to know better?
A. “Hi, I can’t take my eyes off you and would like to get to know you better. Do you have five minutes?”

Q35. What do you most want after sex?
A. Cuddling together.

Q36. Have you ever had the feeling that you could love everyone in the world?
A. Yes. I have that feeling right now.