Colin Hay

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. ”

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

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

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

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

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

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. ”