I always take a teapot with me on tour. I suppose it’s only natural that I’ve just written a song called ‘Where Would We Be Without Tea?’ Gilbert O'Sullivan Read Quote
When the magazines talk about artists they talk about the Paul McCartneys, the Paul Simons, they never talk about me. So their readers and contemporary artists are never going to check me out because they’re not reading about me. Gilbert O'Sullivan Read Quote
What I can’t understand is why people still won’t give me the credibility that I look for. If Mojo or any other of those magazines would give me the credit for only ever performing my own songs rather than someone like Rod Stewart singing other people’s songs looking for success. Gilbert O'Sullivan Read Quote
I’m very much a home bird. I sometimes think I should have been a domestic. I like sweeping up, getting everything tidy. I’m obsessive compulsive. I don’t mind admitting it. Gilbert O'Sullivan Read Quote
I’m basically as shy a person as I was when I once worked in an office in London in the late Sixties. I like my own company. I didn’t need a lot of friends. Gilbert O'Sullivan Read Quote
Lennon and McCartney became great songwriters because they were prepared to listen to and learn from all types of music. Gilbert O'Sullivan Read Quote
I’ve only recorded my own songs. I don’t consider myself a great singer, so I wouldn’t be comfortable interpreting other people’s songs. Gilbert O'Sullivan Read Quote
As you get older you lose interest in what you hear on the radio. But you can’t be like that, you have to enjoy what’s going on. Gilbert O'Sullivan Read Quote
