Darren Hayes Quotes

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Darren Hayes

Profession : Singer

Birth : May 8, 1972

I wanted to life the energy of a room when I walked into it and I wanted to take people away from the sadness of life and into a dream world.

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Im sure most artists say this, but my favorite songs are not the hits.

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I love the music video for 'Crash and Burn.' I was very excited to work with the director to make something stylistic and graphic.

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Im an original trilogy kid. My experience with 'Star Wars' was the 70s, where George Lucas just completely changed the future of cinema.

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I understand why there was a need for hope in 1977. Everything was very grim. So the idea that there could be a future of just infinite possibilities for young people who are about to go out into the world is an amazing feeling as a teenager.

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Like a lot of my experience in seeing 'Star Wars' movies multiple times is really just to relive that feeling of being a kid.

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I'm not someone who spends my money frivolously.

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I was done with music and I became very cynical about the industry and Top 40 radio. I didn't even want to look at music for a while, and did a course in screen-writing.

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When I recorded 'Unlovable', I had a lump in my throat. It was moving, but I wasn't sure if people wanted me to write those type of songs.

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So after an album and tour are over I take 6 months to a year to do other things. Once I went to University and studied screen writing. Another time I learned to dance.

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The thing with a band is it really is a marriage.

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People dont get married by accident and they dont get divorced by accident.

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There are reasons why musical relationships are magical and those same reasons are sometimes why they cant last.

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Darren Hayes is an artist. Im a singer, I write songs, but the things I do have always been bigger than me.

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When you hit someone back with understanding or love it stops the cycle of friction. Its not always easy to do, but when youre aware in the moment you have a choice to respond with love or hate. Its not rocket science.

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Savage Garden was a roller coaster experience. By the second album I was living in New York, my whole life had changed. I was probably depressed.

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People didnt expect pop music to be authentic. There were a lot of manufactured bands - of which I love.

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For me as a kid growing up, I was gay and I didn't even realise it, let alone accept it. I was told I was gay before I could even imagine it. I was incredibly bullied - ferociously bullied - as a child.

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I don't want to be a gay or a straight artist. I don't make gay records - I make records.

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I can tell you first hand - being able to marry the person I love and to live in countries where my marriage is recognized - probably saved my life.

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