Demis Roussos

“In 1975 I had the award for the top male artist, the award for top single, the award for top album.”

“Food is like music. You've got two kinds, good and bad.”

“In this life, you have three kinds of persons the winners, the losers, and the third ones, they're the ones who don't even know why they're born. I'm a winner.”

“My music was liked by the people.”

“I'm a romantic singer. That's my nook, my motif.”

“Everything that happens in the life of a human being, especially artists, who are supposed to be more sensitive, yes, it can affect you. In Lebanon I saw 10- and 12-year-old kids walking around with guns, and I understood how much human actions affect people.”

“Technology is like the 666 because it controls us.”

“I can't conquer all the world at the same time.”

“One day I had an instinct to put on a kaftan and go out and sing. People liked it out of the blue. An artist should be instinctive.”

“My music came right on time. It was romantic Mediterranean music addressed to all the people who wanted to go on holiday.”

“In the countries where they don't know me, which is only America, wherever I go, the hotel, the restaurant, the airport, people go, 'Oh, my! What's that?' That's good. That's good, because there is a curiosity there, which is great.”

“I'm like a painter who has had his different periods: jazz, soul, pop, psychedelia, varietes.”

“The public never knows what he wants, but he always wants what he knows.”

“I am a unique kind of personage and voice! No one else is like me!”

“I own a private yacht, private jet and a private lion.”

“The one thing I cannot support in a woman is stupidity.”

“I want America to see me as a combination of the Rev. Sun Moon and a singing star. That's the image I want them to have.”

“I will become known In America: I have faith in myself.”

“I am basically a folk singer because I'm coming from a part of the earth where folklore means a lot. The Mediterranean is a very old part of the world, and the more a place is old, the more there is folklore.”

“First I was rich, then I was poor, now I am rich, again and I want to stay that way.”