Darren Hayes Quotes

"The first thing any Australian does when the come here is they sit there and they watch the toilet."

"I was at a Thai restaurant with Daniel when I had to go to the bathroom. I was walking back confidently when I walked into a plate glass window! The entire restaurant witnessed it and now I'm that guy from SAVAGE GARDEN who walked into the window. They tell everybody." - Darren

"It's me! It's me! It's always me!" --Darren when asked who smelled so good at the MTV Live interview in New York.

"There's this place in Brisbane mall and every time I go there, I'm usually eating a big kebab and have falafel coming out of every orifice, and someone goes, "You're that guy from that band!" and I'm looking SOOOO attractive!" - Darren on the weirdest place to be recognized.

"You know if we were Spice Boys, I'd be Hairy Spice"

"The only thing we have in common with those 'boy bands' is that we're male. I think. We can't dance for sh*t." - Darren on MTV 1515.

"Actually, we heard this if you're out there, Silverchair. We heard that at your gig in Brisbane that people were giving you a hard time, throwing stuff at you, and you actually threatened to play Savage Garden music if they didn't stop. Which I thought was really cool, and you've got balls for saying that."

"The airlines lost some of our baggage and now I'm wearing my manager's underwear as a consequence of that." Dj asks,"Do they fit?" Darren answers,"No, they're a little small actually." - Darren at the STAR 98.7 CD release party at the Roxy in Los Angeles .

"You know... I wanted to look like a man" --Darren Hayes on why he cut his hair.

"Well...you're looking at it! They lied didn't they?! *LOL*" --Darren Hayes' reply when asked, "you've been said to have a great face for TV."

"I learned some new cuss words today folks." - Darren on Southpark The Movie

"Why the hell do people assume we're into gardens?" - Darren

"I invented an alter ego. His name is Edwardo Phillipe and he's a Latin Australian born in Brazil but RAISED in Australia. Due to an unfortunate rollerskating incident he is no longer able to perform the Salsa or other related sexy Latino dances. Don't ask me to explain. Hey..if I could dance don't you think I'd be makin' my own sexy butt videos?" - Darren on the effects of sleep deprivation

"I have hand signals for my wife. [2 clicks]yes [1 click] no. How sad is that? How many woman would put up with that? This is a woman who will wash out my filthy, sweaty speedos after a performance. This is an amazing woman!" - Darren on 60 Minutes

"When I was 10 I used to walk around shopping centres and go, "Oh, they've recognised me!" And I would think, "hold on, who am I? I'm nobody famous yet!" - Darren on 60 Minutes

"I used to wash up the dishes as C3PO. And it's very hard to put cups away when this joint doesn't bend! Mum was very tolerant..." - Darren on 60 Minutes

"It's better than sex, it's better than chocolate, its better than anything. My job is actually better than my life."

"Ohhh! Hours and hours." - Darren on how long he spends in front of the mirror each morning.

"It's a fashion tradegy-that's what it is" - Darren on his snazzy blue tips

"Our visit to the local bowling alley was hilarious. I of course...the king of cool (really just a cover for my lack of physical ability in sports) refused to play. For 'fashion reasons' I said. But I don't think anyone believed me." - Darren just doesn't do bowling.

"And I always think this could end just as quickly as it began ... I could be pumping gas tomorrow." - Darren Hayes on fame.

"I think they were incredible. Viva Spice Girls! Five girls, not that serious, don't know if they could sing or dance, but look, we're having fun. I bought that."

"I'd put them all in the same trash compactor as Whigfield." - Darren Hayes about the Spice Girls.

"I don't buy four or five guys who can't really sing and didn't write the songs. It pisses me off."

"We try to be in... try to be hip... but we can't!!!" - Darren on trying to keep up with the latest look.

"I was a completely normal kid, the school nerd. In Year 8 and 9 I got picked on. I was a freak- no one understood me. I was the kid who wanted to be abducted by ET. Then all the losers left in Year 10. But I was quite good at school, and very artistic. In Year 11 it turned around. I became one of the coolest kids in school. I was in school musicals- the kid who could sing. It was bizzare. I loved school. It's an amazing little world. The rules inside the school are different from the outside world." - Darren on what he was like in high school.

"I was working in a video shop and having a really bad day. Then the song came on the radio and it just made my day. But the first time I saw myself on TV I hated it. I think you go through that period when you first hear your voice, but I'm over it now. I can hear my voice now and I know what I sound like, so it's not that big of a shock to me. With TV it was like "OK, that's what I look like, alright, I'll deal with that." Everyone else has for 25 years. But it was the first time I realised what I looked like in 3D." -Darren on how he feels about hearing himself on the radio, and how he feels about seeing himself on TV.

"We hate gardening as well." - Darren on the name 'Savage Garden'

"The weirdest one for me was the transvestite who wanted us to sign her breasts. We did it." - Darren on weird pick-up lines and requests

On MuchMusic, the VJ asked the boys anout their relationship. Darren replied, "He's like my brother." Daniel retorted, "I'd rather be his brother than his sister." Not to be outdone, Darren responded, "I'd rather he was my brother than my lover!" The look on everybody's faces was priceless :)

"...This town in the middle of the desert...hot as hell with all the comforts of a king inported, transplanted there for the luxury of high rollors. It's so ironic. All the money...all the extravagance. Fake trees...oceans...theme parks in hotels. Money...bankruptcy. And this atmosphere of craziness. Every cell in your body tells you to PARTY."

"We blew up the garden gnome to destroy any future references to gardens."

"Mainly people walk past, then they look at you, and then they do a double take, and a couple of times they'll come up to you when you're eating a kebab, lettuce between every possible tooth, and they'll say, aren't you that guy from..."

"It's DISGUSTING, don't believe the hype." (Looks at camera) "Don't believe the hype. It tastes like someone scraped off the bottom of a birdcage and stuck it on a piece of toast." - Darren on vegemite

"We're practicing to say things like "Would you like fries with that" just in case the career doesn't happen. This is a shot we're taking and we'll see what happens..."

Interviewer: "this is a really hard question for me to ask..." Darren (interrupts): "We were young, and they said those photo's would never be published."

"We think we're damned good. In fact I don't want to do this interview anymore, we're too good for it aren't we?" - Darren

Interviewer in '98: Who is your favourite Spice Girl? "Ginger. And thanks for asking. I've been dying to tell the world." - Darren

"GoshI'm very emotional, and very good at kissing!" : _How good? From 1-10? : "I've been told I'm a 10 at kissing! I have very big lips and that helps! I had a couple of drinks the other night and ended up kissing almost all the girls there, and I got very good reviews." - Darren on how he rates himself as a lover

"I hate it!(laugh)I have a little grasspot outside my house, but its overgrown." - Darren on how he feels about gardening

"None of them because of the movie Jaws and because I think airplanes are going to crash into them! I dont want to be hanging onto a piece of fuselage in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean singing My Heart Will Go On." - Darren when asked what his favorite ocean is

"I don't know what it is, cuz' when I'm in the shower, I'm doin' things like you know *does impression of Ricky Martin* 'shake your bon bon shake your bon bon shake your bon bon...'" (interviewer) - "And when your in the shower, what exactly is a bon-bon?" (Darren) - "I don't
know ...whatever I'm shakin'..." - Darren on singing in the shower

"I love Britney (Spears). I think she's a sweetheart. She's a cutie. She doesn't know what's she's doing ! (doing Dr. Evil Voice) She's unaware of her sexual energy! She's working the mojo and she doesn't even know it!!" - Darren on Brittany Spears

"Oh, thank god I thought he was going to ask us to touch our bon bons!!" - Darren when asked to sing part of 'I Knew I Loved you' live

"Thank you! You are able to see being very savage...I've got facial hair! - Darren on being more savage

"I have one final comment. Up until recently, it has been extremely difficult to determine which is the order line and which is the pickup line at a Starbucks. And I'm happy to see that more and more Starbucks are beginning to place signs for the pickup and the ordering. Thank you" - Darren's closing statements on an AOL chat forum

"No way..we have worked bloody hard for this. We were one of those bands you describe. The talent thing? Get a life. Are you saying we don't have talent?" - Darren when asked how he felt about struggling bands compared to their 'instant' success

"No the rest of the album sucks...WHAT DO YOU THINK? It is a fantastic record..but we have to say that because we live and breathe this stuff.." - Darren when asked if the rest of the album is as good as the first single

"I want you to hear my solo album and forget about war..a food shortage..and the dark occurrence in the world for a moment."

"I am commercial and straight. I'm not an excessive type. I want to make the melody which people do not leave flatly. There are contents and sincerity perfectly and I want to compose the music which can be borne when it flips on a piano after 20 years."