We all try to increase our length of life, but we all have to pass. It's highly interesting as a lyricist. — 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
