Quotes by 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
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
I can do anything I want to do really, I might as well.
– Robbie Williams
I can't cook to save my life.
– Robbie Williams
I couldn't live without my music, man. Or me mum.
– Robbie Williams
I do like myself, but I think I'm far too needy!
– 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 don't think anyone can ever be fully happy. If you're fully happy then you're a miserable person because the grass is always greener on the other side-it has to be. I'm not saying I'm miserable-in fact I'm the happiest I've been for a long time, but I'm no happier than I was when I was at school. Then again, I'm more miserable than when I was at school.
– 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
I had to stop drinking. The thing was, I didn't know how to do it. I needed to be dowsed in cold water and told not to be silly, so that's what I did in rehab-I dowsed myself in cold water and told myself not to be silly! And I'm also quite spiritual, which helps me look after myself. I meditate every day, and I pray every morning and evening.
– Robbie Williams
I have to be careful what I ask for in life, 'cause I always seem to get it! The good thing is, I've got a purpose now, whereas before my purpose was to go out and party.
– Robbie Williams
I like listening to good music-and I can't stop playing my album.
– Robbie Williams
I live alone, and it's good. I stick on a video, watch telly. I am a bit lonely sometimes, but I laugh at my own jokes and dance around by myself when I'm making something to eat. I'd like to do a bit more reading maybe. I've tried, but somehow I just can't get into that book thing yet.
– 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
I think my ego needs pampering-I need to be on stage again. So I've started writing, and I'm in the studio next week.
– Robbie Williams
I think the way for me to win America's heart is to perform, and if I really was concerned about breaking big then there'd be a tour.
– Robbie Williams
I was supposed to go on to college and to university-which is a really good idea!... but I didn't have any qualifications. So I had to audition to everything and... I got into this band called Take That... I don't know if you've heard of them... And-that's how it happened.
– 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'm a bit of a slag... Some people don't think it's very nice, but I don't care... I've got hormones, and sex is there, so why not? Sex is good. Everybody does it, and everybody should!
– Robbie Williams
I'm a self-obsessed son-of-a-bitch, really. Hopefully it makes for good records. People buy them, so I must be doing something right. But I'd really love it if I had the creative power to write about other people.
– Robbie Williams
I'm off everything apart from the fags and the coffee. I don't know if it's worked. It works up until you take your first drink.
– 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'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'm writing on both guitar and keyboards-but I don't want to tie myself down to one particular sound. Some songs I'll record with a band, others will be more computer based, and yeah, there will be influences of Pulp but there will also be influences of Pet Shop Boys, New Order and Oasis.
– 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
I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.
– Robbie Williams
I've had an exellent reaction from the British public... it feels good to be myself at last. I'm suddenly signing boys' names on autographs as well as girls'. It's a real ego thing for me, because I've always wanted to be respected by my peers.
– Robbie Williams
I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.
– 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
It's a huge responsibility being a solo act.
– Robbie Williams
It's always good to get a video banned, people want to see it more. That's how it works. Mind you, it is a bit disturbing. I don't think I'd let me watch it if I was 7 years old. The video's very graphic. I have sex with two girls, and then it looks like I'm having sex with men.
– Robbie Williams
My self-doubts are disappearing day by day... However, my first single was a cover.
– Robbie Williams
No matter how caned I got, I never lost sight of how much my mum means to me, and things are great between us now.
– 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
The problem is, I don't think I've got too much to offer at the minute. I'm busy working on myself. This sounds like real therapy talk, but it's like, you've got to be happy with yourself before you can go out and get yourself a girl.
– Robbie Williams
The second time I got drunk I was 14. All the tellies in the house were smashed, my signed Muhammad Ali picture was destroyed, and I couldn't remember a second of any of it!
– Robbie Williams
The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!
– Robbie Williams
There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.
– 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
U2 are one of those bands who would still be around whether they broke the States or not, but I do think that America is the gift that keeps on giving. Although there's been a lack of loyalty surrounding stars recently. I mean, who is going to stick around like Mick Jagger or Bono? Where are those bands?
– 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
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
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