Robbie Williams Quotes & Sayings

Good evening everybody, my name is Robbie Williams, this is my band and for the next two hours YOUR ASS IS MINE! — Robbie Williams

When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away! — Robbie Williams

I like to be comfortable, but I do enjoy being a British gent and dressing up a bit. — Robbie Williams

I miss your love, I miss your touch But I'm feeling you every day. And I can almost hear you say You've come a long way baby ... — Robbie Williams

I'm conscious of age, but I'm more suspicious of it than anything. — Robbie Williams

Is there a tumor in your humor? — Robbie Williams

And through it all she offers me protection,
a lot of love and affection
whether I'm right or wrong.
And down the waterfall
where ever it may take me
I know that life won't break me
When I come to call, she won't forsake me
I'm loving angels instead. — Robbie Williams

My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith. — Robbie Williams

I can do anything I want to do really, I might as well. — Robbie Williams

Madonna looked amazing. I can't believe she's 89 and looks like that. — Robbie Williams

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form. — Robbie Williams

Tel Aviv, Israel, me, Robbie Williams. I'm coming to see you. It's like a first date. I've got butterflies in my stomache, I can't wait. I hope you feel the same way too. There will be singing, there will be dancing, there will be banter, there will be love. Mainly from me, beaming it to you, from my heart into your heads and minds. — Robbie Williams

I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man! — Robbie Williams

I'd make a better U.S. president than George W. Bush. Bush is an idiot. I'm a better public speaker than him. It makes you wonder about the voters. — Robbie Williams

And I feel that love is dead, I'm loving angels instead — Robbie Williams

As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I'm still performing at 50, it's because I'll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them. — Robbie Williams

Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a sunken dream — Robbie Williams

What happens is I speak to people outside of my circle of friends and they have already formed an opinion of me based on the things that people have written. That is the effect of journalism on my life, and sometimes it isn't very pleasant. — Robbie Williams

Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out. — Robbie Williams

You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them. — Robbie Williams

I'm really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it's great, you know. — Robbie Williams

I have to be careful what I ask for in life, cause I always seem to get it! The good thing is, Ive got a purpose now, whereas before my purpose was to go out and party. — Robbie Williams

Do I think I'm a national treasure? I don't see why not? I don't see why I shouldn't be. I'm a good lad, really. — Robbie Williams

I am the first to admit I have made a couple of mistakes: two trips to rehab, Rudebox, the album, Geri Halliwell. I should have gone for Victoria, really, shouldn't I? I'd have been really famous. — Robbie Williams

I don't think it's important to be that good at singing. I think people who are good at singing sing backing vocals for pop stars. It's about how you project. I wouldn't consider myself to be a singer. — Robbie Williams

I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse. — Robbie Williams

You can't argue with popularity. Well, you could, but you'd be wrong! — Robbie Williams

I am the only man who can say he's been in Take That and at least two members of the Spice Girls. — Robbie Williams

I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last. — Robbie Williams

Everyone likes at least one Elvis song ... Me, I love them all. He was, is and will remain the ultimate rock star. — Robbie Williams

I've nothing against anyone following their dreams - but not if they're crap. — Robbie Williams

Perhaps I'm absolutely bonkers and don't know it. Perhaps I'm psychotically mental. — Robbie Williams

The entertainment industry and my place in it is a place where you burn brightly for as long as you can. — Robbie Williams

I'm quite open to the fact that I might be a tinfoil-hat freak. — Robbie Williams

I spent a lot of my twenties wanting a maid, really. I thought I wanted a relationship, but I just wanted somebody to fix and nurse me, and I'd take her hostage for six months. When you're 23, 24, you want to be in a relationship because they look brilliant - you've heard all the songs about it and seen all the movies and it looks great. — Robbie Williams

They're selling razor blades and mirrors in the street
Pray that when I'm coming down you'll be alseep
If I ever hurt you your revenge will be so sweet
Because I'm scum
And I'm your son
I come undone — Robbie Williams

I show off - I'm a very good show off. It's what I do, it's what I'm good at. — Robbie Williams

There aren't many great adverts for marriage or parenthood. It always looks so stressful, and that's what I've been scared of. What you don't realise is how much you're going to get back. — Robbie Williams

I'm contemplating thinking about thinking ... but ... it's overrated - just get another drink in! — Robbie Williams

I've had to make friends with an awful lot of bad fashion choices. — Robbie Williams

I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself. — Robbie Williams

To be honest, I don't want No. 1's anymore. Now, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind the odd few, but I'd also like a record going in at eight and staying around. — Robbie Williams

We know we are falling from grace, millennium. — Robbie Williams

I am not as bad as people would suggest. Not as good as I would like to be. — Robbie Williams

I met Courtney Love and she said she'd like to sleep with me, but she couldn't cos of my "pop-star thing" ... so I said to her I couldn't sleep with her either - cos of her 'ugly thing' ... — Robbie Williams

I like me food. I also don't like me exercising. It's something me don't do very well. But it's something I've got to get into. — Robbie Williams

I'm mainstream, and I have pretty chart-tastic tastes. I don't often veer away from a big melodic song with big words for big stadiums. — Robbie Williams

I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life. — Robbie Williams

It's a huge responsibility being a solo act. — Robbie Williams

You know, I am a mainstream person with mainstream tastes, and I want to hear the hits. — Robbie Williams

I can't complain about the support I've been given over the years, but I don't like it slipping away. Nobody says 'I'd like to be a bit less successful next year, please'. Nobody on the planet wants that, and I certainly don't. — Robbie Williams

Everybody who's anybody has been competitive and over-sensitive and a bit silly. Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase. — Robbie Williams

I think that, to a lot of people, they don't like my brand of whatever I do. And I think that people - the ones that like me, at least - see me as their brother or their older uncle or their friend or their next door neighbour. I am the quintessential boy next door; I feel that way. — Robbie Williams

I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I'm just pleased to be anywhere. — Robbie Williams

Scientology, Buddhism, the Kabbalah ... if it makes people's lives better, and easier, then I'll do it. Why not? People scoffed at Christianity 2,000 years ago, didn't they? — Robbie Williams

You don't want the truth. Truth is boring. — Robbie Williams

I'm sure that when my daughter will bring home her first boyfriend, I'll be so intimidating that he'll run away, but embarrassing as well, just to have a bit of fun. — Robbie Williams

I miss having someone to cuddle up and have an early night with. But I'm looking. Meanwhile, I'm having a few relationships that don't mean much. — Robbie Williams

I sit and talk to God, and he just laughs at my plans. — Robbie Williams

I didn't lose my mind,
it was mine to give away — Robbie Williams

It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them. — Robbie Williams

I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song. — Robbie Williams

I think dysfunctional people are being funneled into very corporate behaviour. Look at the Brits ... no one's fighting, and it's boring. — Robbie Williams

I want a hit. I don't think anybody spends 12 months writing and recording an album, making something cool, and says, 'Great, I hope this doesn't sell.' I don't understand that mind-set. I want hits: a big bunch of them. — Robbie Williams

I'm a bit hesitant to do anything because I'm actually kind of lazy and I'd like an easier life from now on. The world's a massive place with lots of early mornings and late starts when you're working. — Robbie Williams

I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids. — Robbie Williams

All the best women are married
all the handsome men are gay — Robbie Williams

What was I like? I had a high-pitched voice. Sounded a bit like a girl. Spoke with a Stoke accent, tremendously naive. Overconfident. Tremendously overconfident. And underconfident at the same time - really, really bad combination! Gets you places, though. — Robbie Williams

There is a history of gay people pretending to be straight. I want to balance the sides. I'm a straight person pretending to be gay. I've had a lot of people to imitate. It's easy when you're British; we're camp by nature, anyway. — Robbie Williams

When Daddy goes to work, there's a mouth to feed, a point to life and a reason to do things — Robbie Williams

I enjoy nakedness. I am a bit of a naturist at heart. — Robbie Williams

I still find trusting people quite hard. I've got a couple of mates that I do let in, but that's it. It's something I've got to sort out - I cut people off. — Robbie Williams

If you're willing to change the world let love be your energy — Robbie Williams

I've been watching what I eat. When I was putting on all the weight, I was drinking Guinness and not eating. I didn't have room to because I was drinking all the time. — Robbie Williams

Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs ... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time. — Robbie Williams

It would be great to see somebody like Kid Rock kissing a man. But I'm sure that he wouldn't like the prospect of it put to him, and I won't even go there with Eminem. — Robbie Williams

With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway! — Robbie Williams

I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow. — Robbie Williams

I've got this brilliant thing where I go, 'I'm Robbie Williams', and people are interested in what I want to say - which is amazing because I'm just an idiot from Stoke-on-Trent. — Robbie Williams

I'm trying to not follow fashion. I don't even like the word. But I do like clothes, and I like nicely cut clothes that last and that are built to be worn for the next 30 years. — Robbie Williams

On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, seriously, never want to be famous here. — Robbie Williams

I've lived in L.A. for a long time, and they say, 'If you sit in a barber's shop for long enough, you will get a hair cut.' Well, if you live in Los Angeles for long enough, you're going to get some surgery. — Robbie Williams

I couldn't live without my music, man. Or me mum. — Robbie Williams

If you want to sell the most records, duet with me. If you need someone to come in and bless your record sales, I'm your man. — Robbie Williams

(Britney Spears) went in for knee surgery and came out a little top heavy. — Robbie Williams

Yes I had to dress up in drag but what fun. And now I feel like a real lady. — Robbie Williams

I know I'm gonna die so my revenge is living well. — Robbie Williams

I don't know about an awful lot of stuff. I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications. The thing that I do know about is my feelings and what I think of the world and what I think of me. — Robbie Williams

I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries. — Robbie Williams

I want you to remember something for me. My name is Robbie Williams. I'm a singer, a songwriter, and a born entertainer. — Robbie Williams

I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications. — Robbie Williams

Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students. — Robbie Williams

I think there are ghosts. I haven't seen or heard anything. I've definitely felt something, but it's not scary. — Robbie Williams

Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick. — Robbie Williams

There used to be a huge hole in my life that I wrote many albums about. I didn't realise it was a wife-and-daughter-shaped hole. They've plugged that gap. Everything I do, I do for them now. When daddy goes to work, it's daddy going to work, not Rob going to work. I feel like there's a purpose to everything. — Robbie Williams

I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform. — Robbie Williams

An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay. — Robbie Williams

In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness. — Robbie Williams

When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the light off, putting my head down and then all the thoughts. I don't want al those thoughts ... thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts and I'm: 'I don't want this'. I have to knock myself out to go to sleep. — Robbie Williams

I'm still looking for the rules of what is and isn't pop music. I'm pop. I mean, of course I am. What isn't pop? There should be a pop amnesty where everyone reclaims it. — Robbie Williams