I'm quite intellectual. I read a lot and I'm very politically aware.

I particularly love the silk in Jakarta, the shoes in Tokyo and the amazing cloth from Thailand and Malaysia.

So many people moan about touring and say it's a chore. I don't know, they must be living on a different planet.

I'm not this cuddly, jumper-wearing, good-guy. I'm not David Cassidy. I'm more Johnny Rotten. I'm more Donny Tourette.

I think Bjork is sexy.

I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who don't like Robbie Williams but he is presented to the public in such a way that they have no choice.

I'm a very changeable character. I don't think I've got one style of music that is overriding to me.

I hate art as a be-all and an end-all.

Blissfully, I don't have the revenge gene.

After my second No. 1, my record company, Warner Brothers, gave me a beautiful present - quite unique at the time - one of the very first Sony stereos which had speaker and radio included so I could record the radio and build up cassette tapes of music, gospel singing, adverts, evangelists.

Wisdom is learned through experience, and sometimes experience is hard and bitter.

As a former Mod my love affair with fashion has never waned and whenever I go on tour I am always desperate to hit the shops as soon as possible.

I've found an extraordinary thing happens where I flash an entire finished song. I could be walking along, say over that bridge, and I see and hear the whole thing, words and music.

I grew up on the south coast in Shoreham-by-Sea in a three-bedroom semi-detached home with a large garden shared by two properties.

I'd much rather send my friends letters rather than emails.

Sometimes I feel like Leonard Cohen when he went off to become a Buddhist.

Marriage can feel like putting a burden on each other and sometimes kids go with that, too.

I would say that artists have to be good lovers.

I had to learn very quickly how to perform, how to act, how to look, to always say what I wanted to say in my songs.

I occasionally suffer from eczema but only very mildly.

I've always been a tilter of lances against authority.

I must have 300 songs unreleased or unrecorded, lying around. I'm a production machine, it never stops.

My mum came from an incredibly big family.

In the early Nineties, after my first round of financial problems, I started a studio in Kensal Road in London right at the time when no record company wanted to hear anything from Leo Sayer.

You can't get away from the right-wing politics but that's the same all over the world.

I'm not a golfing man.

The Seventies was a golden era. Back then we had some incredible talent with bands like the Undertones, the Rolling Stones and artists like Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney.

I come from a time when music used to make a difference.

I have so many happy memories of Belfast and the shows I played there.

My dad died with a full head of hair, so I have that legacy.

I get frustrated but never depressed.

You won't find me at parties or the openings of movies and I don't hang around with David Beckham and Kanye West. So the paparazzi leave me alone, which means that I can do my shows, write music and then live a normal life.

We used to spend a lot of time as kids in Northern Ireland, on the border and in southern Ireland as well.

A good microphone is an essential thing for a singer.

There are a million misconceptions about me but the greatest is probably that people think I'm the king of disco. I love disco but it is only one part of me.

I have had a partial kneecap replacement, an irritable bowel and three stents in my heart.

People with learning difficulties are often creative in different ways.

I am a big fan of Korean food.

Fame is always a bit crazy. You spend so long banging on the door trying to get in that when it suddenly opens, it's a very strange feeling.

I'm sure I could have been a rich man, but I never was.

I spent some time with Bob Marley and I have to say that was like walking with a god on earth.

In my earlier albums like 'Another Year' and 'Just A Boy,' I always saw myself as a bit of a loser - the kind of guy who takes a drink and walks into a wall instead of through the door.

It happens in this business - The Rolling Stones were ripped off, so were the Beatles. George Harrison hardly had anything left in the end.

I was a big-headed little guy.

I don't believe in muckin' about and hiding ambition.

A bit of arrogance is nice every now and then.

When you've sung the same song a million or a hundred thousand times, there are always moments when you drift off and go into automatic.

I think I topped 'When I Need You' with 'More Than I Can Say.'

I have always believed that there is no age factor to this music business. You are only as old as you feel and basically you can be a contender at any time.

I would love to be an Aussie citizen.