Top 70 Leo Sayer Quotes

I would love to be an Aussie citizen.

I had to learn very quickly how to perform, how to act, how to look, to always say what I wanted to say in my songs.

I have so many happy memories of Belfast and the shows I played there.

I think Bjork is sexy.

I write from the voice in my head.

Do you know what, I don’t even like dancing.

My first two albums, ‘Silverbird and ‘Just a Boy,’ which had the single ‘Long Tall Glasses’ on it, were very well received. Then I did another one, ‘Another Year,’ which did miserably.

Korean audiences are amazing, they really love the music.

All I’ve ever wanted to do is master my craft. I’m a singer, and I want to be a great singer.

I particularly love the silk in Jakarta, the shoes in Tokyo and the amazing cloth from Thailand and Malaysia.

I like my face. It’s cheeky – dare I say, Chaplinesque.

Dancing as a thing to do is marvellous, but you’ve got to be bloody good at it. I was never good enough.

My hair is massive and fills the mirror.

I’m a very changeable character. I don’t think I’ve got one style of music that is overriding to me.

I’m impressed with Ed Sheeran. I think he has a terrific point of view and a great mentality but I sense there is someone in the background saying to him, ‘We need more love songs, Ed.’

It’s been hard to gain acceptance in England without the clown makeup because I wore the costume as part of my act for so long.

I don’t believe in muckin’ about and hiding ambition.

People with learning difficulties are often creative in different ways.

There’s nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.

I don’t think I ever really sold out, and that made a difference.

I have had a partial kneecap replacement, an irritable bowel and three stents in my heart.

It happens in this business – The Rolling Stones were ripped off, so were the Beatles. George Harrison hardly had anything left in the end.

Marriage can feel like putting a burden on each other and sometimes kids go with that, too.

That’s the nature of the business. You can have a hit and then nothing happens all of a sudden. But I don’t resent it. Hits don’t make great artists.

I’m not a golfing man.

You can’t get away from the right-wing politics but that’s the same all over the world.

When you’ve sung the same song a million or a hundred thousand times, there are always moments when you drift off and go into automatic.

I’m not into ‘The Voice.’ It’s an affair between a television network and a record company.

I believe in not sitting down and taking it easy.

I keep reminding myself I’m the same guy who was lucky enough to get my break because Roger Daltrey commissioned me to write the songs for one of his earlier albums.

I grew up on the south coast in Shoreham-by-Sea in a three-bedroom semi-detached home with a large garden shared by two properties.

What keeps a good face is no stress, and I refuse to worry.

One of the reasons I had moved to London to pursue my career was that I could go to the clubs in the evening and maybe meet my heroes, people like Donovan and Bert Jansch and Dylan. I actually did see Dylan in a club one night.

My mum came from an incredibly big family.

My dad died with a full head of hair, so I have that legacy.

In the ’70s, Leo-mania was the equivalent of Beatle-mania down there and they still love me. In Australia they still want heroes.

I never had kids, but I married once.

Australians never give up. That’s why I love this place. I never give up.

I’m not this cuddly, jumper-wearing, good-guy. I’m not David Cassidy. I’m more Johnny Rotten. I’m more Donny Tourette.

When I was dressed as a clown in all that make-up I used to shed pounds every night and got agonising kidney stones because I was sweating so much.

I’ve always been a tilter of lances against authority.

Being very dyslexic I couldn’t even tie my own shoe laces until the age of 21 and I struggled at school.

I think I topped ‘When I Need You’ with ‘More Than I Can Say.’

I have always believed that there is no age factor to this music business. You are only as old as you feel and basically you can be a contender at any time.

In the early Nineties, after my first round of financial problems, I started a studio in Kensal Road in London right at the time when no record company wanted to hear anything from Leo Sayer.

I was never really keen to drive. I was always chauffeured around.

I would love the record industry to be more receptive to my music but all they are interested in is style over content.

I would say that artists have to be good lovers.

Before I got married, I had a girlfriend who ran off in the middle of our relationship with a millionaire. She called from the South of France and said, ‘I found one, I’m sorry. That’s it. Goodbye!’

I’m sure there are plenty of people out there who don’t like Robbie Williams but he is presented to the public in such a way that they have no choice.

I occasionally suffer from eczema but only very mildly.

A good microphone is an essential thing for a singer.

I stand a lot better chance to go further than Elton.

It’s nice to feel wanted somewhere.

You won’t find me at parties or the openings of movies and I don’t hang around with David Beckham and Kanye West. So the paparazzi leave me alone, which means that I can do my shows, write music and then live a normal life.

I come from a time when music used to make a difference.

There are a million misconceptions about me but the greatest is probably that people think I’m the king of disco. I love disco but it is only one part of me.

A bit of arrogance is nice every now and then.

As a former Mod my love affair with fashion has never waned and whenever I go on tour I am always desperate to hit the shops as soon as possible.

I’m writing a novel about a scallywag who is a bit like me.

We used to spend a lot of time as kids in Northern Ireland, on the border and in southern Ireland as well.

In my earlier albums like ‘Another Year’ and ‘Just A Boy,’ I always saw myself as a bit of a loser – the kind of guy who takes a drink and walks into a wall instead of through the door.

There were people who went for serious mind enhancement, like Jimi Hendrix or John Lennon, although I didn’t really need to do that. I was blessed with an incredibly fertile imagination.

I tend not to eat lunch because a midday meal makes me want to sleep in the afternoon.

In the past, it wasn’t any big deal for people with talent to hang out together. Now we have the celebrity age, which has made a lot of things harder to do.

I think the worst thing in the world is for artists to produce themselves.

I get frustrated but never depressed.

You don’t necessarily have to write a song to make it your own. After all, Elvis never wrote a song in his life.

Blissfully, I don’t have the revenge gene.

I really admire Ed Sheeran. He seems to have really beaten his way through and I think that’s fantastic. He’s his own man – good for him. But there aren’t many of him out there.