It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through. Colin Hay More Quotes by Colin Hay More Quotes From 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. Colin Hay careers mean years 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 dust goes-on years I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? Colin Hay erratic minutes careers I just want to be a better guitar player, really. Colin Hay guitar player want I play in a lot of empty rooms. Colin Hay empty-rooms play rooms 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 rain sky beautiful 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 fun men 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 solitary thing, but I do like coming up with ideas. Colin Hay writing sometimes ideas As you get older you don't want to just do the same thing, otherwise there's not much point. I think it's more or less trying to write things that, perhaps, say more by doing Colin Hay always-trying writing thinking You don't want to get worse at something. Colin Hay want I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good. Colin Hay feel-good writing song I sit around and play acoustic guitar - usually acoustic, sometimes electric, occasionally piano, but more often guitar, just trying to come up with tunes. Ideas kind of pop into your head. Colin Hay guitar play ideas I find that, rather than the cities, I'm very lucky because the audiences that come and see me are very, generally speaking, truly kind, so I have a great time playing everywhere. Colin Hay lucky kind cities The whole issue of Brexit and Cameron's stance on Brexit could become the basis of splits within the Tory (Conservative) party. Colin Hay world It depends how badly the Conservatives do but there is a scenario in which ... there is a potential challenge to Cameron coming from the eurosceptic wing of the Conservative Party. Colin Hay world 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 thoughts dreams me happiness 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-wish you wish remember I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way. Colin Hay walk my-life life way I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point. Colin Hay point going think change I've got a long-term plan. Colin Hay long-term plan got
