Quotes from Leo Sayer

You can't get away from the right-wing politics but that's the same all over the world.

I felt quite an affinity with 'Rocky' in my career. It's been like 'fight the business' all the way up.

I think Bjork is sexy.

Because I don't go to showbiz parties, I don't have the right image. The media decides who's in and who's out.

I am the kind of person who does want very badly to be liked. I'm a right-miserable little show off.

I've always loved what I do and I've always done what I wanted to do... in this business you have got to be yourself.

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

In my earlier albums like 'Another Year' and 'Just A Boy,' I always saw myself as a bit of a loser - the kind of guy who takes a drink and walks into a wall instead of through the door.

I stand a lot better chance to go further than Elton.

In the past, it wasn't any big deal for people with talent to hang out together. Now we have the celebrity age, which has made a lot of things harder to do.

My mum came from an incredibly big family.

Wisdom is learned through experience, and sometimes experience is hard and bitter.

I spent some time with Bob Marley and I have to say that was like walking with a god on earth.

Where are the John Lennons, the Bob Marleys, the Bob Dylans? Where have they gone?

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

Marriage can feel like putting a burden on each other and sometimes kids go with that, too.

That's the nature of the business. You can have a hit and then nothing happens all of a sudden. But I don't resent it. Hits don't make great artists.

I occasionally suffer from eczema but only very mildly.

I am a troubadour, a wandering minstrel.

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 to be an Aussie citizen.

I'm sure I could have been a rich man, but I never was.

Many performers try to sustain a high point in their careers by keeping themselves around those who are overanxious to tell them how good they are.