Quotes from Tom Jones

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.

Music is great; it all depends on what mood you're in, what you want to listen to. If it's party time, you listen to, you know, party music, if you want to dance with somebody. But then again, if it's a slow dance, you need something slow.

I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening.

There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.

So when I realised I could sing for a living - do what I loved and be paid for it - I thought, 'This is unbelievable. Unbelievable!' And that feeling has never left me.

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will...in a dull man.

I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.

I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.

You're...standing...in...my...KUMQUATS!

There is a curious paradox that no one can explain. Who understands the secret of the reaping of the grain? Who understands why Spring is born out of Winter's laboring pain, or why we must all die a bit before we grow again? I do not know the answer; I merely know it's true. I hurt them for that reason, and myself a little bit too.

Deep in December it's nice to remember without a hurt the heart is hollow.

Despite what pretty poets say, the night is only half the day.

You are only a young talent, but we don't know how old your soul is.

I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet.

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.