ROUND 1 TOPIC: DO YOU ENJOY THE THEATRICAL ASPECT OF LIVE PERFORMANCE?
PETE: "I hate every aspect of live performance, because I am a shy person and I don't like walking up onstage and having all these people looking at me. I don't like loud music and I don't like chaos in corwds, but mercifully, I am a masochist, so I deal with these things whilst I am up there. I have never felt comfortable walking out onstage."

SO WHAT DREW YOU INTO BEING THE FRONTMAN FOR A BAND, KNOWING THAT YOU WOULD HAVE TO STAND IN FRONT OF CROWDS EVERY NIGHT?
PETE: "I had to confront my fear. It's not like this overwhelming thing where maybe someone who has a fear of heights has to jump out of a plane to cure it, it was something that I was not sure I could do, so I wanted to see how far I could push myself. I consider myself a tool and just want to find out where my breaking point is."

A TOOL FOR WHAT?
PETE: "Let's just say that my goal is financial independence, so I will do virtually whatever I have to do (within reason) to utilize myself. There are a few aspects of myself that I can exploit. I would use those things as tools."

WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER TO BE FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE?
PETE: "Not being rich, just having money in my bank so you can live off the interest. I don't mean material things - I'm not into fast cars, jewellery or giant houses, I just want peace and quiet and I don't want to have to deal with the human race. When I do deal with the human race after I am financially independent, it will be my choise."

WHAT IS IT THAT YOU FIND SO REPELLENT ABOUT THE HUMAN RACE? PETE: "I think it comes down to the fact that I find myself repulsive and would rather not deal with people as a kind of humane gesture, so I can alleviate them of my presense.

ROUND 2 TOPIC: IS IT TRUE THAT YOU DRINK A BOTTLE OF RED WINE BEFORE YOU GO ON STAGE?
PETE: "Usually about half before going on stage, then the other half whilst I am actually on stage. A bottle of wine doesn't get me drunk, it just takes the egde off my anxiety and kind of brings out the Brooklyn in me - the falsely confident wise guy, which is the person I have to be when I perform.
"At Dynamo in '95, where we performed in front of 130,000 people, I was really excited and I think I drank two bottles of wine before playing. I was not drunk, but I was close to it, as I was really nervous."

ROUND 3 TOPIC: LIFE AFTER THE PLAYGIRL SPREADS
PETE: "I didn't feel comfortable with the Playgirl thing at all. Everybody thinks I got paid 1/4 million dollars for that when I got paid $2,000, which I used to pay some bills and do some work in my house.
"It was really strange doing it. I guess you could call it modelling. When they asked me to do the shoot, I said that in order to make it interesting, my penis should be erect. Then they said, ´Do you think you can do it?´, almost daring me.I said, ´I will make you a deal. If you bring the cheque with you, when I do the session, my penis will be hard.´"

WHAT DID THE BAND THINK OF IT?
PETE: "They got a good laught out of it, the logic behinf it being what we would hopefully appeal to a new audience, the new audience being the readers of Playgirl. Our little plan was successful, because after the issue came out last August, there was a noticeable increase in record sales.
"I have five older sisters and they were kinf of proud of me and bought a bunch of magazines and showed my mother. Even though she is 75 years old, she has a great sense of humour and said, ´That's why we call him Peter!´. She just put it down and got on with whatever it was she was doing."

IS IT EASY TO FIND ENTHUSIASTIC SLEEPING PARTNERS WHEN ON TOUR?
PETE: "At first I did it, but it really wasn't much of a challenge and I realized it wasn't really me that they wanted to fuck, it's who they think I am or who the media has turned me into. "They really just want a piece of me and they don't know me as a person and I have to think that someone must be crazy to be alone with me, to be alone with any man they just met. Who's to say I'm not some fucking nut?
"Now I am a bit more selective and would rather meet an average woman, some I can get to know as a person. I think by far the most attractive thing about a woman is intelligence. I think there is a correlation between intelligence and excellence in bed. There are women who have nothing to talk about, who sit there, looking beautiful, with a gust of wind blowing between their ears. I like women who have a mind of their own, a sence of humour, who are passionate and have real feelings for things."

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN CHATTED UP BY A MAN?
PETE: "Yes. I take it as a compliment, but I tell them that I am filthy hetero scum. If I'm drunk, I would say something like, 'If I ever fucked you up the arse, you would never walk again! Why don't you go and leave me alone before you get hurt?"

ROUND 4 TOPIC: PROBLEM FANS
PETE: "I have a very unusual car back home which I have made into a truck and I park it around the side of my house, as I don't have a driveway. A couple of kids see you leaving the house one day and they tell their friends, and you've got people ringing you doorbell at 4 am and leaving things on your car.
"I've actually seen kinds walking down the block with bags of garbage, but I'm not going to go and chase them to get it back. Personally, I don't care, but from time to time, there are things thrown out that are not meant to be viewed by the public.
"Maybe I should push the issue and put some really interesting things in there to give them something to talk about, like those diapers for old people, condoms filled with blood, leftover food, consisting of a dog food mixed with potatoes - I'm sure I'd be the talk of the town!"