Gilbert O'Sullivan Quotes

Playing shows and making records keeps been getting easier and more fun.

I have started to record some demos so hopefully in the near future I can play live.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

I want to do musician things and start making this my life. I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour. I want to take this time and be a sponge and start meeting people and start - just start.

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

That would really be my fantasy - maybe just do three shows a year and each year in a different city, just singing for the people who really want to see it, and then just write for other people. I do love to sing, but I'm just as happy singing in the bathtub, you know?

I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.

I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.

I don't make as many records as other people do because I prefer the live side of it - and my records are so big that they keep me touring for years upon years and years.

My focus was, and still is, totally on making music, getting on the road and performing live.

I still love touring rock clubs around the world, and that's something that's really a part of me. I love making albums, and I'm a wedding singer on the side; that's my parallel career. So I love all those aspects of making music.

If I'm not on tour or doing a show, I'm in the studio.

I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don't take other people's materials. And I have a job which is being Willa Ford on top of getting back in the studio and writing and recording.

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

I want to be the first Conor Maynard. I think I want to have a successful career that is unique in its own way.

There was never really a Plan B for me - I always wanted to be a music artist.

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

My plan was always to leave school and live in a flat with some friends, have a 9 to 5 job, and try to get as many gigs as I could. I wanted to keep writing and then eventually, in my twenties, head to a record label and hope they'd sit down and listen to my book of songs, sign me as a songwriter and maybe an artist in development.

It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.