home back to band page	Answers Do Not Grow On Trees - Clive Nolan November 1997
	Situation: You do believe in reincarnation: choose an animal, a man and a woman you know and tell us why you want to be it, him or her during your next stay on this planet.  I hope that this is it! I really feel that I've done all my lives, and if all goes well, this one should just about wrap things up....Nirvana here I come!! If I absolutely have to come back, I'd like to be an athletic, handsome, successful, fabulously wealthy fiction writer.....with a love of Jack Daniel's! You have the opportunity to go back in time with a time travelling machine. Where would you go and when? Explain why... The life of Jesus, because I'm always curious about such major events in history - I'd just love to get some of the 'big' answers. On my way back I think I'd have to stop off and meet Beet-hoven - a great hero of mine. Situation: a person comes up to you and starts to run Pride into the ground. What would you do? I'd probably find myself arguing with him/her....that would probably get ugly, but I hope to have enough sense to leave before that point! I can't help but take these things personally. The worst time for complaints is just after a gig, when my adrenaline is working faster than my brains!  A fortune teller tells you that you’re going to win $ 100,000.00 in two weeks. What are you going to do until that moment? I'd carry on regardless. What I do, I do for the music, so the money (though very welcome!) wouldn't make me do things any differently - of course it would make things a little easier! Situation: you are about to enter a nightclub. Just before you a man is refused entrance because he is black. What do you do? Go somewhere else. Someone from the British television asks you to perform with Arena in the most horrible tv-show you have ever seen. It goes against everything you believe in, but it could make the band famous. What would you do? It really would depend on the situation, but if we could appear, playing one of our own songs, and there was a very good chance that this would make a big difference to our chances of success, then I proba-bly do it. For some reason you can be God for one minute and have control over the whole world. Your time is short. What would you do? I'd enjoy the experience of knowing 'everything'...all those answers! Then I'd start eradicating loads of those really 'crappy' diseases whilst ensuring the continuation of our many endangered species. If there's any time left I'd give Clive a 'get into heaven free card', bring a few friends (human and cat) back to life, and, oh yes, make Jack Daniel's cheaper! Let’s say: someone really rich comes up to you and offers you an enormous amount of money to record the next Arena album and finance a complete stageshow just like you want to do. The only condition is that you have to give up drinking Jack Daniels... What would you do? I'd give up, and that is the truth - but not before one last blast!!....