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Colin Hay

Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.

— Colin Hay happiness

People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.'

— Colin Hay time

In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn't raining, it was about to rain, or had just rained. It's a very angry sky.

— Colin Hay beautiful

In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.

— Colin Hay good

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

— Colin Hay soul

I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

— Colin Hay real

I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.

— Colin Hay people

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

— Colin Hay music

It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.

— Colin Hay people

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

— Colin Hay you

Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.

— Colin Hay people

The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time.

— Colin Hay time

I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.

— Colin Hay change

I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is.

— Colin Hay true

I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point.

— Colin Hay change

I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.

— Colin Hay life

I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.

— Colin Hay music

I play in a lot of empty rooms.

— Colin Hay play

I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.

— Colin Hay drinking

I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.

— Colin Hay love

I've got a long-term plan.

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

— Colin Hay you

My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.

— Colin Hay mother

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.

— Colin Hay art

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

— Colin Hay writing

Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, its a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.

— Colin Hay happiness

Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, its a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.

— Colin Hay happiness

As you get older you dont want to just do the same thing, otherwise theres not much point. I think its more or less trying to write things that, perhaps, say more by doing less, or youre always trying to refine things, make things a little simpler, a little more essential.

— Colin Hay you

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