Top 35 Darren Hayes Quotes

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.

I think anyone who creates anything, whether it’s yourself as a writer, anyone – when you finish something, it’s gone from being just your thing and it’s out there, it’s a great release.

I look at this world we live in now where someone like Lil Nas X can push forward his true self, full of pride and self-love and have the chance to be loved for who he truly is. I was realising with great sadness that I didnt get that experience.

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

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

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

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.

I was such an innocent and loving child. I lived in a dream world, I was obsessed with ‘Star Wars’, ‘E.T’, Michael Jackson and Madonna. I was big-hearted, emotional, and excitable.

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

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.

Everyone advised me not to pursue a career in music and expected me to go into law. My dad told me I would end up living in the gutter if I pursued music, so I ended up at uni studying a teaching degree just to please him.

I think of all emotions as just energy. If you see yourself separate from your thoughts, you can choose which ones you give meaning to.

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.

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

I’m not someone who spends my money frivolously.

My obsession with ‘Star Wars’ was an obsession with Ralph McQuarrie, as well. I loved the designs of the universe of ‘Star Wars’.

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

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.

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.

I’d really love to go and do a chef’s apprenticeship. I really would, I love cooking.

I was living in San Francisco so I got back into yoga, bought myself a mountain bike and a puppy, and started living my life. And incidentally, I started making a record without realising it.

I’d love my degree from university, because I’m one subject away from having a Bachelor of Arts, which I know I can’t use, but it annoys me.

Im a night owl so I tend to do a lot of my disconnecting past midnight. I love the feeling when the whole world has shut down for the day Im left to think and unwind without any interruptions.

I struggled tremendously with anxiety and depression related in part to my sexuality and growing up in a time when to be gay felt to me like a death sentence.

I started singing in my first band in 1992 so I’m coming up to 20 years in this business. That’s a long time.

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.

I don’t want to be a gay or a straight artist. I don’t make gay records – I make records.

I learned to accept who I was in spite of living in a world that did not feel accepting to me.

One of the biggest Savage Garden fans is one of my best friends of my life. She lives in Wales and her name is Mags. She started off as a fan, and shed always be at the front of Top Of The Pops. Then she met my sister who ran my fan club, they became friends.

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

I try to balance out my private life with my public job – I have learned to draw a very clear line in the sand and save up hugs and kisses and special moments with friends and family when I can because the job involves a lot of travel away from the people you love.

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.

I don’t want to feel like I have to be a poster child for anything other than being a great artist. I don’t take that on board as being my responsibility as a gay man, because I think it’s really limiting.

It was never going to be easy transitioning from a band to being a solo artist but I accepted that right from the beginning. I’m proud of my work and how I’ve evolved as artist.

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.