The following is an interview that was on the Canadian channel, Musiqueplus, on November 23rd, 1997. It was between Elsie Martin and Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones.

Elsie: "Your debut album, just self titled "Savage Garden", to me sounds like the juxtaposition of two extremes, and I hear that very well in your music, it suits your music that way. I hear electronics, guitars and strings, and then I wonder is that a reflection of your personalities, as extremes?"
Daniel: "Coming together, yeah. It's definitely about duality. We say that it is definitely Yin and Yang, Frick and Frack, Spic and Span. It's definitely about two sides coming together."

Elsie: "What kind of a context, or a state of mind, do you guys need to write pieces of music?"
Daniel: "I definitely have to be alone, and I tend to feel I'm suffering, self pity, with the depressing vibes. And then we come up with songs like "I Want You", and I get confused."

Elsie: "What about you Darren?"
Darren: "I have to be alone as well. It's interesting isn't it? I just realized that we're often alone when we write these songs, and at the end they come together. Um, like I said, usually I'll have a tape of music, very basic music, it could just be chords, bass, and drums, from Daniel, and I'll sit at home in front of the stereo, or lay down, usually it's like 11 o'clock or later, and I'm half asleep, and I'm singing, the melodies are coming. Sometimes I'll even ring my cell phone and leave a message on the voice mail, which is a melody, so I don't forget it. Um, but in the end, I guess there is a judgement day for all and eventually *gulp* I turn out with my lyrics and melody, and Daniel's got his piece of music and it's time to record this demo, and I sing it, and we commit it to tape, and that's the song."
Daniel: "So far, for the success rate of that formula, the songs have been coming, like, it's been working for us as well, not even to say it's been a hit or anything, but for our personal opinions on the song we'll go, 'that's right, it's fine' so we'll pick up on each other's vibes really well."
Darren: "Okay, in America "I Want You" was a huge hit, and for a minute I thought, 'We're superstars'. It's amazing. Then the next thing, we thought, didn't work and I remember think 'I want it, I want it, oh so badly I want it.' Our third single looks like it's going to be a big hit and I'm in two minds about it. Sometimes I really want it, and sometimes I'm scared of it."

Elsie: "Due to the recent events, I want to ask you guys if you were fans of INXS, you probably were."
Darren: "Yeah, the ironic thing was, two months ago we met Michael Hutchence for the first time when we supported INXS in Pittsburg in the US, and um, yeah, we looked at "Kick" as a goal for our record."
Darren: "This thing about icons, falling from grace, to me, it's continuing to die, with Princess Diana and Michael Hutchence. Just various icons either falling from grace or literally falling off the face of the earth. It's just this whole mortality issue that's coming into our lives, it's strange. It feels weird to us because they've always been like 'big brother' and now we're starting off and they're not there anymore, they're gone."
Daniel: "All you ever wanted to do was write a few songs and, you know, maybe hope that someday people would want to hear them, and the effect that has when it actually happens is a lot bigger than you thought it was going to be. Um, but I think that if you're in tune with yourself, which I think both of us are, then you can, you know, you know what's right or wrong."
Darren: "I just want to make sure that we can get through this career with our souls, and I hope that the price of success isn't that we make a bad deal, because I want to get through this and still have integrity and sometimes, every now and then, I feel that slipping. I feel that being threatened, and you hold on and think, 'hang on. There are things that are more important to me than this.' We'll wait and see.