Leo Sayer

“I was a big-headed little guy.”

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

“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.”

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

“I hate art as a be-all and an end-all.”

“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 am a troubadour, a wandering minstrel.”

“I never had kids, but I married once.”

“Blissfully, I don't have the revenge gene.”

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

“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.”

“After my second No. 1, my record company, Warner Brothers, gave me a beautiful present - quite unique at the time - one of the very first Sony stereos which had speaker and radio included so I could record the radio and build up cassette tapes of music, gospel singing, adverts, evangelists.”

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

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

“I am a big fan of Korean food.”

“Sometimes I feel like Leonard Cohen when he went off to become a Buddhist.”

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

“Fame is always a bit crazy. You spend so long banging on the door trying to get in that when it suddenly opens, it's a very strange feeling.”

“I'm not a golfing man.”

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