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’ve been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success. – 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
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
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’m a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song. – Robbie Williams
People change. I wouldn’t like to be accountable for the interviews I’ve done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21. – 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
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
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
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
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 constantly doing new stuff, and I want it to be received really well. Who knows what’s ego, what’s business, what’s artistic. It all shifts on a day-to-day basis. – 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
You know, I am a mainstream person with mainstream tastes, and I want to hear the hits. – 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
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
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
I think you’re very lucky to find somebody you can coexist with without straying or going mad or being angry. That’s whether you’re Liam Gallagher and Nicole Appleton, Robbie Williams and Ayda Field, or Tim and June from down the road. – 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
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
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
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 think dysfunctional people are being funneled into very corporate behaviour. Look at the Brits… no one’s fighting, and it’s boring. – 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
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
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