Darren Hayes
Darren Hayes
Darren Stanley Hayesis an Australian-British singer-songwriter, comedian, and podcaster. Hayes was the frontman and singer of the pop duo Savage Garden until its breakup in 2002, whose 1997 album Savage Garden peaked at No. 1 in Australia, No. 2 in United Kingdom and No. 3 in United States. It spawned the singles "I Want You", "To the Moon and Back", and Australian and US No. 1 "Truly Madly Deeply". The duo followed the success of their debut album with Affirmation, which provided additional hits...
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth8 May 1972
CityBrisbane, Australia
That's what got me into exercise and training my body and my voice. I looked at Madonna as this G.I. Jane superstar. I used to go jogging around my neighborhood at midnight sometimes and I'd be thinking, it'll all be worth it one day.
I wanted to make an album that was painfully honest, like (Bruce) Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love,'
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...
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.
Dont believe the hype. It tastes like someone scraped off the bottom of a birdcage and stuck it on a piece of toast.
If you think I have a great voice and body, youll be shocked as hell seeing and hearing me in the shower.
Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize youre alive. Thank God you feel them; otherwise youd be numb.
I said (to Daniel Jones), 'You realise I'm always going to be The Guy From Savage Garden'. He said, 'How do you think I feel? I'm The Other One From Savage Garden!'
If you've only had one relationship, how do you know you're good in bed?
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.
Let me give you a lesson about school. All the kids who were popular end up on the dole with babies. All the nerds end up as pop stars
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]
I know it's not very masculine to say the moon is beautiful...but it is!
When I realised I wasn't Michael Jackson and I was this 10 year old boy growing up in the suburbs, I was devastated