The perception that if you're not on 'Top Of The Pops' you're dead and buried is a good one for pop music,… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
The quality of my songs will get through to people. They are good songs. Lyrically, some of them are interesting: there's stories,… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
Success isn't dependent on the market place, because I can't control that. It's about completing a good song. — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
I always tell people that I went through long hair. I was a typical art school scruff. It was good then. — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
The way I do that is to keep coming up with good songs and when I do a concert, I make sure… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
My motto is, 'You may not be as good as you think you are, but thinking you are is good.' — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
My Norwegian wife Aase was a Pan Am stewardess back in the Seventies when we met. She was very attractive, and we… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
Doing the Best I Can' is a sure fire hit. Incredibly commercial. But what could you say about it? Catchy and good… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
I feel every time I have 12 good songs for a new album, I am in with a chance to compete with… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
Success for me is to write what I think is a good song. When I'm pleased with it, that, for me, is… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
I have learned to avoid the coverage, good or bad - and it's mostly bad. — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
It's very easy to think about rhymes and just usage of words that sound good but don't mean anything. Basically, I try… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
I thought my singing and songwriting were good, but nothing different. Then you're presented with this picture image that contradicts the impression… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
Whenever I write lyrics and an Americanism slips in, I always cut it straight out. I can't use the word 'babe,' for instance. It… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
The music is the thing. I am not writing for critics; I don't want to become a personality. — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
The writing is everything of course but you can't be making records and not be willing to go out there and perform. — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
The perception that if you're not on 'Top Of The Pops' you're dead and buried is a good one for pop music, because 'TOTP'… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
I'd love to see myself on sale in shops. It tickles me, does the idea of me being marketed. — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
I didn't come into the music business to make money. I came into it to be a success. Of course, if you're successful, you'll… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
Nothing Rhymed,' my first single in England, was a nice ballad, which I thought would sound like a songwriter typical of the day -… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
I think if every song I had was, 'I love you, you love me,' there would be a problem. — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
What I would hate to go through is what happened in the mid-90s playing in front of a half-empty theatre, which prompted me to… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
