When I started out I thought just hearing one of my records on the radio would be magical. Fortunately, that naivety has always stayed with me. Because when you've had massive success and it tapers off people lose interest in… — 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
