John Otway's Quotes

I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.

Well, it's been an interesting career. Since I last appeared on 'Top Of The Pops,' I've been doing about 150 live shows every year. The live shows have always been well received and they consistently worked, it's just the records that haven't been very good.

Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.

I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.

I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.

There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.

I don't think they like the idea that the people who are buying the record get to choose what goes out, because it's their job. The fans even pre-ordered stock to make sure that I had some sort of presence.

I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done, because the people buying the record have actually got to pick what they want to buy, rather than being told what they should buy.

The fans have been great, they've stuck with me through a lot of hit-less years and I think they were as determined as I was that it was time to put an end to the lack of hits.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

No praying, it spoils business.

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.