For a while, Kravitz's relationship with Kidman seemed, to the tabloids at least, to be headed up the aisle. Both had introduced one another to their respective families (something neither does lightly, apparently), but the relationship foundered when Kravitz was caught getting intimate with a Brazilian artist called Isis Arruda at a Miami nightclub. Understandably, he won't be drawn on the details of their break-up, but he does say this: "If you really love one another, then the relationship will work itself out through any kind of problems. In this case, it didn't, and I'm single now. So draw your own conclusions."

Nicole Kidman

I ask him why he is especially drawn to famous women, and I very quickly come to regret it. "Famous women?" he snaps, suddenly sour. "What the hell does that mean? Which famous women?"

Well, Madonna, Vanessa, Kylie, Nicole ... "That's bullshit, really it is. I'm not attracted to, as you call them, famous women, I'm simply attracted to nice women. Because we tend to meet prospective partners in the workplace, mine are occasionally well-known, because I live in a world of art and artists. f But listen, I don't need any girlfriend of mine to have won an Oscar, you know. I'm just as happy dating a girl from the post office. Thing is, the press don't care about that. They don't care if I've dated somebody regular, from, say, the ghetto. All they want to know about are the famous ones."

When was the last time he dated a regular woman? "Pretty recently, actually, but as I said, the press don't care about that. They don't care a damn." At this point, I wave at him. "Hello," I say. "I am from the press, and I am interested." He looks at me quizzically, as if I've just lapsed into Latin, but eventually he relents. He leans forward, and lowers his voice.

"I dated a South American girl from the ghetto, right here in Miami, for close on two years." I ask how a multi-millionaire rock star gets to meet a girl from the ghetto. "By going to the ghetto, of course! Don't let all this fool you," he says, indicating the house, the boat, the staff. "I'm just a regular person beneath all this. When I go out to drink and socialize, I don't hit South Beach because I'll get mobbed there. But in the ghetto, people are cool with me. They see me, Lenny, as just another guy. They're cool, I'm cool, it's all cool." Cool.