Quotes from Darren Hayes

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

I think that's what's really beautiful about music, that it is little pieces of your heart and soul.

Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize youre alive. Thank God you feel them; otherwise youd be numb.

If you think I have a great voice and body, youll be shocked as hell seeing and hearing me in the shower.

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

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 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.

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.

If you've only had one relationship, how do you know you're good in bed?

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

I think I have a reputation for being really serious. In interviews I use big words, but I'm just an emotional goofball. I play practical jokes all the time.

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.

If the audience wants to hear them, then I'm going to play them. I'll mess around with them a bit to keep it interesting, because it's frustrating when you see artists refusing to play their biggest hits.

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

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 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 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.

Everyone else is too busy judging themselves to be thinking badly of you.