Quotes from Leo Sayer

I'm quite intellectual. I read a lot and I'm very politically aware.

All I've ever wanted to do is master my craft. I'm a singer, and I want to be a great singer.

My first two albums, 'Silverbird and 'Just a Boy,' which had the single 'Long Tall Glasses' on it, were very well received. Then I did another one, 'Another Year,' which did miserably.

You won't find me at parties or the openings of movies and I don't hang around with David Beckham and Kanye West. So the paparazzi leave me alone, which means that I can do my shows, write music and then live a normal life.

I have always preferred paper and ink to a computer screen and I still write most of my lyrics by hand.

Dancing as a thing to do is marvellous, but you've got to be bloody good at it. I was never good enough.

I like my face. It's cheeky - dare I say, Chaplinesque.

People with learning difficulties are often creative in different ways.

I damaged my legs and ankles many years ago when doing concerts and falling off stage.

I'm impressed with Ed Sheeran. I think he has a terrific point of view and a great mentality but I sense there is someone in the background saying to him, 'We need more love songs, Ed.'

One of the reasons I had moved to London to pursue my career was that I could go to the clubs in the evening and maybe meet my heroes, people like Donovan and Bert Jansch and Dylan. I actually did see Dylan in a club one night.

I've found an extraordinary thing happens where I flash an entire finished song. I could be walking along, say over that bridge, and I see and hear the whole thing, words and music.

As a former Mod my love affair with fashion has never waned and whenever I go on tour I am always desperate to hit the shops as soon as possible.

I get frustrated but never depressed.

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's been hard to gain acceptance in England without the clown makeup because I wore the costume as part of my act for so long.

Blissfully, I don't have the revenge gene.

There's nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.

When you've sung the same song a million or a hundred thousand times, there are always moments when you drift off and go into automatic.

Being very dyslexic I couldn't even tie my own shoe laces until the age of 21 and I struggled at school.

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

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.

I'm not into 'The Voice.' It's an affair between a television network and a record company.

There were people who went for serious mind enhancement, like Jimi Hendrix or John Lennon, although I didn't really need to do that. I was blessed with an incredibly fertile imagination.