Uk Interview with Dave

These days, the diminutive, if impressively sculpted, guitarist is just as loved-up and perky as Farrell, but perhaps that's what comes from being engaged to the former Baywatch actress Carmen Electra. Or maybe it's the liquid oxygen that has reportedly become a favourite tipple. Stroking his demonic-looking black goatee, Navarro talks excitedly of recording an acoustic version of the track "Just Because" at Abbey Road studios the previous evening. He has a yoga lesson booked, so he can't chat for long. Asked how he has changed since the last time he played with Farrell, he says: "The main difference is, I don't have a needle hanging out of my arm. I'm also able to create out of gratitude, rather than misery. And the misery I was creating before was self-induced."

Navarro maintains that he and his fiancée's mutual celebrity strengthens, rather than challenges, their relationship. "I'm in music, and she's a sex symbol and an actress, so we're not in competition," he says. "I see friends whose wives don't have their own world going on, and that always looks uncomfortable to me, because one party is always waiting around for the other. Carmen and I don't have that. There's a lot of room in our relationship, and that's part of the reason we've been together for three years and are getting married in November."