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I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

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Colin Hay
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 29
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The Crossroads of Ayrshire
Colin James Hay
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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.
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I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them.
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I just want to be a better guitar player, really.
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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.
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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 pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.
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Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.
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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.
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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.
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I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.
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People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.
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It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.
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I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?
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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.
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You don't want to get worse at something.
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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 less, or you're always trying to refine things, make things a little simpler, a little more essential.
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Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.
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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.
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I tried talking to Jesus, but he just put me on hold.
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I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.
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I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.
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