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1. "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
2. "I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that." ~ Colin Hay
3. "I've got a long-term plan." ~ Colin Hay
4. "It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through." ~ Colin Hay
5. "Most people remember me for a couple of tunes." ~ Colin Hay
6. "My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs." ~ Colin Hay
7. "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
8. "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
9. "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
10. "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
11. "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
12. "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
13. "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
14. "I tried talking to Jesus, but he just put me on hold..." ~ Colin Hay
15. "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
16. "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
17. "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
18. "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
19. "I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point." ~ Colin Hay
20. "I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way." ~ Colin Hay
21. "I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth." ~ Colin Hay
22. "I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?" ~ Colin Hay
23. "I play in a lot of empty rooms." ~ Colin Hay

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