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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Colin Hay

The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much…

— Colin Hay

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years…

— Colin Hay

The thing with playing live is, most of the audience is in their 20s and 30s. If you're older than that, you…

— Colin Hay

I tried talking to Jesus, but he just put me on hold...

— Colin Hay

You don't want to get worse at something.

— Colin Hay

It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the…

— Colin Hay

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

— Colin Hay

Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.

— Colin Hay

I've got a long-term plan.

— 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…

— Colin Hay