We all try to increase our length of life, but we all have to pass. It's highly interesting as a lyricist.

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• Gilbert O'Sullivan:

  Success for me is to write what I think is a good song. When I'm pleased with it, that, for me, is

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  I do pick up on contemporary issues.

• Gilbert O'Sullivan:

  The perception that if you're not on 'Top Of The Pops' you're dead and buried is a good one for pop

• Gilbert O'Sullivan:

  The basis of everything I do is down to the song. If I don't have the song I don't sing, and if I d

• Gilbert O'Sullivan:

  I've never recorded anyone else's songs. I'm not interested. If you gave me a song by Bono and Edge

• Gilbert O'Sullivan:

  I only think in the following terms: writing, recording, releasing. That's what I have control of.

• Gilbert O'Sullivan:

  Whenever I write lyrics and an Americanism slips in, I always cut it straight out. I can't use the

• Gilbert O'Sullivan:

  I used to get these reviews in American newspapers saying that they didn't understand what my lyric

• Gilbert O'Sullivan:

  I'd go to meetings with record companies - CBS, Decca, EMI. They'd tell me to wear a pair of jeans

• Gilbert O'Sullivan:

  Nobody likes going to court.