Ian Gillan Quotes

Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.

I am not exactly Mrs. Good Housekeeping, although I love to cook, bake, even iron, but only because it's not mandatory.

I simply love doing household chores and cooking.

I love folding laundry.

Ironing is comfort. It's control. I'm a nutty person who likes to make sure everything is in its place.

Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

I'm OCD beyond comparison.

I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.

I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning, and I nerdily sharpen all the pencils in my pot before sitting down to work.

As an OCD guy, I find change difficult.

I couldn't sleep for nights on end, as my brain felt like there were thoughts colliding within it; I obsessed over small details, from saving pennies and polishing each one of them to washing my clothing over and over in the washing machine.

I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.

I've never told anyone this before, but I'm an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don't do it I can't sleep.

I do have a touch of OCD, and I used to obsess about research. But I'm better than I was. Gone are the days when I would drive to a set of traffic lights to find out if you could turn left. I finally realised it didn't matter. A book will not stand or fall on whether or not there's a branch of Starbucks in Brixton.

You know when pillowcases come out of the dryer and they get really wrinkled? I iron them.

My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling.

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.

I will make myself sick on films, just because you want everything to be right. I can't sleep if something hasn't been done or is out of place.

No one gets up early to do laundry for a species,

I'm super OCD, so everything is clean.

If you saw me trying to do laundry or something, well, I'm not really equipped to do anything else.

I'm kind of an obsessive person, and touring is repetitive in the best way.

I do the laundry. I do the shopping. I do the dishes.