Tom Jones Quotes

It's not unusual to be loved by anyone, it's not unusual to have fun with anyone. But when I see you hanging about with anyone, it's not unusual to see me cry. I wanna' die.

It's good to touch the green, green grass of home

Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!

I like to drink to suit my location.

Elvis was always over the top. That's why he had that gold lamé suit! He designed his jumpsuits himself. He always said, "If you're going to be a star, you should look like one."

I want to find out more about how the Backstreet Boys get their incredible sound. I've got both their albums and I would love to cover one of their songs

I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.

You can't be a sexy person unless you have something sexy to offer. With me, it's my voice: the way that I sing, the way I express myself when I sing.

I was full of fire when I was young. I wanted to attack anything.

You are only a young talent, but we don't know how old your soul is.

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

I think when you've lived a bit, you read more into the songs. I do, anyway. And you're sort of living the songs rather than performing them.

First of all, I love singing. I mean, I get out of bed and I sing. I can't help it.

There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.

I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will...in a dull man.

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

I have had some pretty wild nights! I think the media keeps a very close eye on what people are up to these days. I was out with George Clooney a few nights ago and we had a great time.

I've always worn jewellery but for a time it went out of fashion. Like grungy and punk bands didn't wear jewellery because it was stupid.

I think teen-age love is a great thing. There's nothing quite like it and never will be for the rest of your life.

I think the first time I ever wore a tuxedo was when I played at the Talk Of The Town in 1967, because it was a nightclub and that was the thing to do.

I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.

Love is in the air everywhere I look around. Love is in the air every sight and every sound.

An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.

My real name was Thomas Jones Woodward, so I dropped the Woodward.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always wanted to do a gospel album.

I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.

Dean Martin always dressed very well but then he was a good looking fella with a good physique so he could wear anything.

I've tried wearing more than one ring on one hand and it doesn't look good. It's overkill, I think. So I think a ring on either hand. Nine times out of ten I'll go for pinky rings, but not always.

I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet.

You can't lose the essence of a song. I try to enhance it more than anything else.

I'm a lyric man - I'm always looking for meaningful songs.

I couldn't do the heavy rock thing anymore. Noddy Holder was around kicking every singer in the ***. I never wanted to be a pop singer. Christ, how I hated Noddy!

I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening.

I realize that singing is saving my life, once I started again.

Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12.

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

I've always liked to dance - I've got a natural rhythm.

People never talked about my music. They just counted how many knickers were on stage.

Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing.

Deep in Decemberit's nice to remember without a hurt the heart is hollow.