Creativity Quote by Michael Hutchence

Hutchence isn’t trying to sound profound; he’s trying to describe attraction the way it actually behaves in real life: less like a lightning bolt, more like a mood you catch. “A certain sensibility” is doing heavy lifting here. He doesn’t say “beauty” or “chemistry,” the usual rock-star clichés. Sensibility implies taste, posture, a way of moving through the world - the kind of intangible style that INXS sold as much as songs. It’s attraction as aesthetic alignment.

The key move is “when it rubs off.” That’s physical language for something psychological. It suggests closeness, sweat, osmosis, the backstage intimacy of touring life where people borrow habits, slang, confidence, maybe even recklessness. He frames that contamination as “good,” which is revealing: he’s not defending independence, he’s celebrating porousness. In a culture that romanticizes the lone genius, he’s admitting that desire rewires you, and that the rewiring can be a feature, not a bug.

There’s also an implied boundary: “a certain” sensibility, not just any influence. This isn’t surrender; it’s selective apprenticeship. You’re drawn to someone partly because they carry a version of you that feels sharper, freer, more alive, and attraction becomes a mechanism for self-editing. Coming from a frontman whose public persona blended charisma with vulnerability, it reads like a small manifesto for intimacy: the right person doesn’t just excite you, they leave a residue you’re happy to keep.