Colin Hay

And I wanted to do greater and greater things.

And with a lot of things, I think, where you have five or six men together, communication skills are very limited.

And I think that men at work essentially was a very huge thing.

It was a huge thing which was kept very small by what I consider to be small-mindedness and people not recognizing the phenomenon of what we were, you know.

You know, having said that, probably...

It wasn't a band that was really destined to go the distance like a lot of bands do.

I have great respect, whether it's the Rolling Stones or U2 or other bands you mentioned you could think of that seemed to stand the test of time and there seems to be some kind of soul or unifying force within the band.

And that's what we didn't really have in the end, which was really the sad aspect of the bandmen at work.

The bandmen at work was definitely, it was six people, five people on stage.

We had a manager as well.

And the six of us created the success to become the biggest band in the world.

And then all of a sudden, we were not.

I think that at that particular time, I felt for Justin Bieber because everyone seemed to be slamming him for his behaviour.

And everyone seemed to be negating or minimizing his talent.

What I felt that I wanted to express to him or to anybody for that matter, but at that particular time, he was just the guy that was kind of seemed to be getting hammered by everybody, that the thing that will never leave you is your talent, is your ability to do the work.

the phrase that I always come back to, which I firmly believe in, is that if all else fails, you know, creativity can always be a salvation.

People can't take that from you.

I can't get to sleep I think about the implications

Diving in too deep And possibly the complications Especially at night I worry over situations I know we'll be alright Perhaps it's just imagination Day after day It reappears

Night after night my heart beats and shows the fear.