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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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,…

— Jimmy Somerville

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Jimmy Somerville

I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.

— Jimmy Somerville

For someone who doesn't live there, when I go back to Scotland it's very weird for me.

— Jimmy Somerville

People like Duran Duran were a big production but it was a nothingness. That's just my personal opinion.

— Jimmy Somerville

When you grow up with constantly being told or made to feel that you are less than, then it's very difficult to…

— Jimmy Somerville

I've never liked bosses telling me what to do.

— Jimmy Somerville

I'm Scottish and I was born there and but in my heart I'm a Londoner.

— Jimmy Somerville

The first record I ever danced to in a grown-up disco was Donna Summer's 'A Love Trilogy'. I danced for the full…

— Jimmy Somerville

I definitely didn't have a happy childhood.

— Jimmy Somerville

I believe now that love is letting people in. Love is bigger than all of us.

— Jimmy Somerville