Leo Sayer
I felt quite an affinity with 'Rocky' in my career. It's been like 'fight the business' all the way up.Collection: Business
People with learning difficulties are often creative in different ways.Collection: Learning
Being very dyslexic I couldn't even tie my own shoe laces until the age of 21 and I struggled at school.Collection: Age
That's the nature of the business. You can have a hit and then nothing happens all of a sudden. But I don't resent it. Hits don't make great artists.Collection: Business
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.
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 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.
Korean audiences are amazing, they really love the music.
I am a big fan of Korean food.
I really admire Ed Sheeran. He seems to have really beaten his way through and I think that's fantastic. He's his own man - good for him. But there aren't many of him out there.
Australians never give up. That's why I love this place. I never give up.
I never had kids, but I married once.
I'm writing a novel about a scallywag who is a bit like me.
I'm not into 'The Voice.' It's an affair between a television network and a record company.
I come from a time when music used to make a difference.
Everybody writes about love and cheating and heartbreak. We've done all that.
Where are the John Lennons, the Bob Marleys, the Bob Dylans? Where have they gone?
The past is the past: what can you do about it?
I don't think I ever really sold out, and that made a difference.
I've always loved what I do and I've always done what I wanted to do... in this business you have got to be yourself.
I write from the voice in my head.
Many performers try to sustain a high point in their careers by keeping themselves around those who are overanxious to tell them how good they are.
I keep reminding myself I'm the same guy who was lucky enough to get my break because Roger Daltrey commissioned me to write the songs for one of his earlier albums.
Before I got married, I had a girlfriend who ran off in the middle of our relationship with a millionaire. She called from the South of France and said, 'I found one, I'm sorry. That's it. Goodbye!'
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.
Kids in England will stop you on the streets and tell you bluntly they don't care for your current record. But it keeps you down to earth.
I very much enjoy writing about positive, direct emotions.
I hate art as a be-all and an end-all.
I believe in not sitting down and taking it easy.
All I've ever wanted to do is master my craft. I'm a singer, and I want to be a great singer.
I think the worst thing in the world is for artists to produce themselves.
It's been hard to gain acceptance in England without the clown makeup because I wore the costume as part of my act for so long.
My first two albums, 'Silverbird and 'Just a Boy,' which had the single 'Long Tall Glasses' on it, were very well received. Then I did another one, 'Another Year,' which did miserably.
One of the reasons I had moved to London to pursue my career was that I could go to the clubs in the evening and maybe meet my heroes, people like Donovan and Bert Jansch and Dylan. I actually did see Dylan in a club one night.
I am the kind of person who does want very badly to be liked. I'm a right-miserable little show off.
I'm a very changeable character. I don't think I've got one style of music that is overriding to me.
I would love the record industry to be more receptive to my music but all they are interested in is style over content.
Because I don't go to showbiz parties, I don't have the right image. The media decides who's in and who's out.
In the '70s, Leo-mania was the equivalent of Beatle-mania down there and they still love me. In Australia they still want heroes.
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 was never really keen to drive. I was always chauffeured around.
I spent some time with Bob Marley and I have to say that was like walking with a god on earth.
I am a troubadour, a wandering minstrel.
I damaged my legs and ankles many years ago when doing concerts and falling off stage.
Blissfully, I don't have the revenge gene.
There's nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.
When I was dressed as a clown in all that make-up I used to shed pounds every night and got agonising kidney stones because I was sweating so much.
My hair is massive and fills the mirror.