Telehit Interview with Darren
(12 May 2002)

I. We are here in LA with Darren Hayes.
How are you?
D: Great, thank you.
I: How do you feel?
D: Excited, very excited it feels as I were beginning my career again. I feel challenged and as a proud father.
I: But of course with a little bit of experience
D: Yes, I guess. It's been 10 years making records with Daniel Jones being part of SG and making this solo record has been really challenging. It has been terrifying sometimes because I was on my own.
I: Yes, lonely
D: Yes and I had to find the strength to do it, the courage and the conviction but at the same time it has been amazingly and enormously satisfactory. Finishing this record and being here today presenting it to the world.
I: I've been listening to this record the name is SPIN
D: Yes
I: You were saying that you were satisfied with the result of the record but through all the songs you find someone who is unsatisfied
D: Really?
I: Yes, in a sense. Listen to the titles INSATIABLE, I CAN´T EVER GET ENOUGH OF YOU
D: True
I: Another I MISS YOU
D: Ok Riddle me
I: HEART ATTACK
D: Exactly!
I: You know STRANGE RELATIONSHIP
D: What's wrong with me ?
I: I don't know, tell me
D: I don't know . It's funny
I: Do you feel unsatisfied? In another sense of course not with the result
of the record
D: The record I love
I: Yes, I know but in another sense
D: I think I'm someone who requires a lot of love
I: Really?
D: Even in a relationship I can't ever get enough
I: Really?
D: More, more, more so maybe that's what the songs are about maybe that's what you see
I: When you are having a relationship you are taking energy of the person you're with?
D: No. I give the same amount I do everything with a child-like enthusiasm the way I get happy; it's the same way I get sad I'm very emotional. In a lot of this record I'm making fun of that. Some songs are true and some not.  In this record I wanted songs that were completely autobiographical and others that were a little bit fantastic.
I: So 50 % of the songs are reality and the other 50% are fantasies?
D: Yes, maybe. In my previous albums people was used to me being completely true and explain everything about myself. I wanted to make this record a little bit blurred I wanted to give the listener the opportunity to bring their experiences to the song. I didn't want to explain which were about me and which just fantasies.
I: What were your main worries while you were recording this record?
D: I didn't have worries I had moments which I felt I had to reach certain levels and compete with or fight my own insecurities that I couldn't do this. So lots of the time making the record I was looking for strength inside and trying to believe in myself and in my opinions. I was producing and co-writing everything
I: It was very risky?
D: Yes, It was risky but at the same time is very satisfying because when you put yourself on the line all of your weakness and strengths light up in front of you and the world and that can be very powerful.
I: But are you the only one that take the decision who decide after doing one song or the whole record or you ask for other people's opinion?
D: I ask for opinions that's why I co-produce the album with Walter A. and I co-wrote songs with different songwriters. I think it's important to have people that collaborate with you, people that are honest to you. Sometimes as an artist or as a musician you can be so close to the end result that you can't see it objectively and it's important to have someone to step outside and say "I don't know about that." Thankfully everybody in my life is that honest with me.
I: Why do you call the album SPIN?
D. There is a song in the album called SPIN
I: Yes, I know
D: Finally, enough a lot of the songs in the record actually use that word SPIN or SPINNING AROUND or the concept of things spinning it became this secret hidden title to the record
I: You have to listen the whole album to …
D: Work it out!
I: I'm to find out the secret. You were telling me something about your insecurities . Do you have a lot of insecurities?
D: I think we all do
I: yes, like what?
D: I'm not going to tell because you will know what they are
I: Let me tell you something, when you have a big insecurity in your life and you talk about it and you think about it
D: You give it power
I: You start getting rid of it
D: Well, yeah and no; I think if you talk about them you give them power. A lot of my growth as a man and as a human in the last 2 or 3 years it has been about accepting who you are inside. I have been practicing yoga through even the making of this record it has been a journey to understand
I: To get in touch with yourself
D: Yes, and it's important when you meet people not to tell what you honestly think about yourself because it's their job to make up their minds
I: But you have to help them ? Don't you think?
D: Everybody does having some insecurities help me, make me not to be a
complete egomaniac I can feel indestructible but also vulnerable. That keeps
my feet on the ground
I: How do you get in touch with an audience in a concert?
D: I always sing. It's when I feel more comfortable in my life.
I: Are you going to feel Lonely?
D: No
I: no?
D: I have this connection with my audience when I sound comes out of my body. I'm inside the melody is like isolation but having a conversation I don't feel the people on stage my musicians. When Daniel and I were on stage he always took the back seat. I feel I haven't perform in ages
I: Are you going to miss him?
D: Yes
I: Are you going to miss SG?
D: Yes. It was a beautiful band it was an amazing experience, It was 20 million records You know?
I: It made you rich first of all?
D: Yeah, in many ways in the heart and to pay the bills we travel around the world, we met a lot of people. It was an amazing time.
I: You're nor thinking about reunited SG?
D: I don't know , maybe later
I: Is it as a divorce?
D: Yes I guess it is. It's not this angry thing when you're dealing with 2 people as any relationship we were in a same direction but we started changing directions that's all.
I: That's the reason of the break up? Because you were going in 2 different directions?
D: It was a mutual decision but It was Daniel's decision long time ago a couple of years ago
I: He told you "I want to go out "
D: No, he express that he wasn't happy being a public figure that he wasn't happy.  I'm completely supported him. I understood what he wanted to do with his life and that wasn't happening. He didn't want to be this person in front of
the camera, he wanted to be the person behind the mixing desk making magic out of the public eye.
I: Do you like living under the public eye'
D: I think nobody likes it but I don't complain, for me speaking with you is a necessary tool in order to let people know that I have a record coming out but all I really care is to sing, be on stage and make people smile. There are a lot of things get your picture taken, do interviews, being a public person that help get people the message that this is what you want to say. I'm not somebody that needs attention; I have never needed it for my personality or my soul.
D: I live in San Francisco
I: Why did you choose SF?
D: I think SF chose me
I: Why?
D: I was recording with Walter A. the last SG record and he co-produced my album. I was just happy like I had not been in a long time. I didn't question it I just bought a house there I've been living there for 3 years
I: What do you plan to do with this record?
D: Touring. I'm going to take at least 8 musicians with me. We've just finished the video for Insatiable. We're going to shoot a video for the next single, lot's of things, me reintroducing myself to the world. I feel like a brand new artist. I'm going to travel around the world again.
I: You have a brand new look as well?
D: Well, it's me. I used to dye my hair and I stop doing that. This record is about me doing the music that I love, looking as I actually look, trying to reconnect with the job and the audience
I: Last question How is your love life?
D: It's fine thank you for asking
I: Someone? Alone?
D: Maybe, Maybe not. How is your love life?
I: I'm alone
D: Listen to my record it's a sexy record in case for that moment.
Thank you
I: Thanks to you, nice to meet you