Went Away Quotes by Colin Hay

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

— Colin Hay

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…

— Colin Hay

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

— Colin Hay

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

— Colin Hay

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

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

— Colin Hay

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

— Colin Hay

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

— 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…

— Colin Hay

I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them.

— Colin Hay

I sit around and play acoustic guitar - usually acoustic, sometimes electric, occasionally piano, but more often guitar, just trying to come up with…

— Colin Hay

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

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by…

— Colin Hay

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

— Colin Hay

I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively…

— Colin Hay