Struggle Years Quotes by Jimmy Somerville

I've always been making music, but I sort of went under the radar. I kind of disappeared... I was never really that comfortable with…

— Jimmy Somerville

Now that I'm older, I understand that it's up to the individual to decide who they are or what they are.

— Jimmy Somerville

Glasgow is a city, but it's one with a small-town mentality.

— Jimmy Somerville

I've always relied on a big producer and big studios. I had budgets that were ridiculous.

— Jimmy Somerville

When disco came around the first time, there was this real core of progressive thinking and a positive lyrical content - about freedom, the…

— Jimmy Somerville

Actually, have you ever heard Sylvester's live version of 'Mighty Real' that was recorded in San Francisco? If I listen to that, I never…

— Jimmy Somerville

I discovered later in life that there's not that many men with a counter-tenor vocal ability.

— Jimmy Somerville

So many people have to struggle for years, very few bands get success with their first record, but I was instantly successful and famous…

— Jimmy Somerville

I slowly became less famous and less successful. That was very difficult.

— Jimmy Somerville

There’s a massive glitter ball in my head and it has never stopped turning

— Jimmy Somerville

Actually, it doesn't matter to the papers why you left Glasgow. They never look at the roots of the problems you had, and you…

— Jimmy Somerville

I went to squat with a bunch of friends - creative, intelligent, political people. We got involved in a community project funded by the…

— Jimmy Somerville

I think there's a lot of honesty in that track. 'Smalltown Boy' was about leaving Glasgow but it was also about the people I…

— Jimmy Somerville

It has to start from the playground and parents teaching kids that diversity is what makes us so wonderful.

— Jimmy Somerville

I had good parents. My mother had morals and standards and she brought us up to be good kids - some of the families…

— Jimmy Somerville