Colin Hay

And on the surface, you have everything.

You know, you have this amazing success and then you just, I just was always thinking to myself, oh, am I going to get through this?

Am I going to survive this, you know?

And indeed, even, you know, people in my immediate family, my brother and sister were not convinced that I was going to make it, you know.

But at some point I thought, well, okay, I've got to change my life.

I have to actually really do something about this.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, I'm an alcoholic, you know.

People go, ah, you know, what do you mean by that?

You know, and it's different for everybody.

But even when I first started to drink, I realised I was probably an alcoholic, you know.

It's inside, it's a DNA, it's a genetic thing, chemical thing, you know.

It wasn't like I drank every day.

It wasn't like I would get out of control every day.

But it was just that, you know, I loved it.

I wanted to do it all.

You know, I wanted.

So I was always...

I was always using my will to control it.

And you can't, you know, over a period of time, it's a very progressive thing.