Robbie Williams

“Everybody who's anybody has been competitive and over-sensitive and a bit silly. Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.”

“There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.”

“I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.”

“I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!”

“I can do anything I want to do really, I might as well.”

“Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out.”

“Perhaps I'm absolutely bonkers and don't know it. Perhaps I'm psychotically mental.”

“I'm really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it's great, you know.”

“I don't know about an awful lot of stuff. I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications. The thing that I do know about is my feelings and what I think of the world and what I think of me.”

“When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the light off, putting my head down and then all the thoughts. I don't want al those thoughts... thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts and I'm: 'I don't want this'. I have to knock myself out to go to sleep.”

“With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!”

“I'm still looking for the rules of what is and isn't pop music. I'm pop. I mean, of course I am. What isn't pop? There should be a pop amnesty where everyone reclaims it.”

“Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.”

“You know, I am a mainstream person with mainstream tastes, and I want to hear the hits.”

“I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.”

“I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.”

“In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness.”

“What happens is I speak to people outside of my circle of friends and they have already formed an opinion of me based on the things that people have written. That is the effect of journalism on my life, and sometimes it isn't very pleasant.”

“I'm mainstream, and I have pretty chart-tastic tastes. I don't often veer away from a big melodic song with big words for big stadiums.”

“I'm quite open to the fact that I might be a tinfoil-hat freak.”