5 questions with Brandon

Jane Magazine October 2006

The Same Five Questions We Always Ask

Most singers of a band whose debut sold more than 5 million copies would hook up with 10 groupies a day and snort their lives away. But Brandon Flowers, lead singer of the Killers, isn't having any of that. He's a practicing Mormon, he plays golf in his spare time and he married a former Urban Outfitters manger from his home town of Las Vegas.

Right now he's on a mountain in Mexico filming the video for "When You Were Young", the first single from the band's new record, Sam's Town. "It's a Mexican love story starring this guy named Gustavo Sanchez," Brandon yells through international phone static. "It was so good, we almost didn't want to be in it."

I'm dying to know the story behing the song "Uncle Jonny", with its epic line "When everybody else refrained/My Uncle Jonny did cocaine". "Jonny is my mother's brother," Brandon explains. So is he pissed that his love for blow is being exposed on a global level? "Nah," Brandon says, laughing. "He's excited that he's immmortalized now." I guess I would be too.

1. Where's the craziest place you've ever had sex?

A rental car in Savannah, Georgia. In the middle of touring we had a week off. I have a problem with flying so instead of going home, my wife came to me and we rented a car and drove around. Just pulled off on some dirt roads...

2. What word makes you cringe when you hear it?

"Artist". Just shoot me if I ever refer to myself as an "artist". Call me "rocket man" instead.

3. What do you think happens to you when you die?

I believe that we live on. Maybe the body dies, but I think you get a new one. I look at the trees and the sun, the air and the water. Everything is just too perfect, down to our digestive system.

4. When was the last time you pulled an all-nighter?

Back in London when we were finishing "Sam's Town". Normally, I like to sleep, but we stayed in the studio until 4 or 5 AM. You've already gone that far, so you take it to the next level. We ended up in a dungeon. This guy we know has an incredible house with a room underneath it that was built hundreds of years ago. He made it into a wine cellar and a theater. We were hanging on the chandeliers.

5. If you were invisible for one day and could spy on a famous person, who would it be?

Tom Cruise? I love him but he's getting so strange and no one knows what the Scientology this is all about. So I would be the one to deliver the news.