Tarkan Facts & Favorites

Define "Love": Oh, I don't think you can define love. Can you? I think there are all different kinds. Love is very important, it's what everybody strives for; love is like closeness, wanting someone and being wanted yourself and it's what everyone looks for in the world.

Hobbies: I like to keep up my running. I started it to stop feeling guilty about eating - the only problem is I feel so good after I've had a run and a bath that I need to go out. Because if you go for a run - far from making you tired - it makes you really active, far more than I normally am! I'm intrinsically lazy!

Do you talk to yourself? Yes, quite often actually. I never shut up, you see, and I'm always wandering around either thinking or talking.

Can you eat a plateful of spaghetti without slurping? Yes, because I cut it! I cut my spaghetti! I cheat! And if I don't cut it I make sure it's wrapped really well around my fork before I even attempt to put it in my mouth. I hate slurping. I hate eating messy things. I love eating fried chicken.

Tarkan's House: "I don't really like the idea of people seeing inside my house because it's the only private thing I've got left now. You can come and have a look if you like but it's not very interesting. I've just had the decorators in and it's really bare."

What makes you angry? Waste - particularly people waste what they've got or those who don't appreciate the value of anything. It's not necessarily a financial value - talented people who mess it all up.

First crush: It was a girl I was going out with when I was five and we had the record for the longest kiss on the block.

Have you ever dreamt that you were flying? Oh, yes. I've also dreamt that I was falling and I can tell you right now, you know how they say that when you dream of falling you never hit the ground because if you did you'd be dead? well, it's a myth! A lie! I know this because I hit the ground once and I remember standing up in my dream and saying, "Wow! That's a lie!"