Astley's Quotes

#1. I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.

Rick Astley

#2. In a story, the craftsmanship is fully exposed. A novel is like charity; it covers a multitude of faults.

Thea Astley

#3. Talent always rises to the top

Amy Astley

#4. I come away from a gig thinking, 'Yeah, I'm worth something.' I can still do it and entertain people, and that's worth it.

Rick Astley

#5. I'd been bumming around in bands since my school days.

Rick Astley

#6. It's very hard to behave naturally when you know people recognise you. On the other hand, I still sometimes get upgraded in hotels because someone used to like me back in the day, which is still pretty amazing.

Rick Astley

#7. I had my 15 minutes of being the new boy of pop, like lots of people before and after me. Overnight, everyone starts treating you differently, and perceives you differently.

Rick Astley

#8. I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like the best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

Astley Cooper

#9. It is the surgeon's duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.

Astley Cooper

#10. I think Phil Collins is one of the most underrated musicians, singers, performers - he is absolutely amazing, I think, and I think he's probably got a bit of a rough ride occasionally because he became so mainstream and so popular.

Rick Astley

#11. I used to go to soul nights because I loved dancing, and so did my friends, and we loved the music. We used to go listen to black American soul.

Rick Astley

#12. I've been to Sardinia about 10 times because my wife, my daughter and I used to go every year with another family. We rented the same house each time in Villasimius in the southern part of the island, and always went to the same two beaches and same three restaurants.

Rick Astley

#13. My lectures were highly esteemed, but I am of opinion my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it.

Astley Cooper

#14. When I was a tiny tot, we only had one record player in the house, so there was either Genesis on it or the Jungle Book or The Beatles as well, and various other things.

Rick Astley

#15. I tried to scream like you once screamed God since I wanted to make the whole world faint but Harry Astley clapped his hand over my mouth O the sheer joy of feeling my teeth sink in.

Alasdair Gray

#16. Doing things in my day was simple: you either signed to a big label or you signed to a very small label, and you worked with that one, and then they eventually signed you on to a big one.

Rick Astley

#17. You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.

Rick Astley

#18. If you are too fond of new remedies, first you will not cure your patients; secondly, you will have no patients to cure.

Astley Cooper

#19. Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.

Rick Astley

#20. And this time Zara White," he says, " this time it is my turn to rescue you." - Astley

Carrie Jones

#21. I don't get recognised until I'm on stage, and then I can walk off and forget about it. It's great.

Rick Astley

#22. Scientology always makes me think of that movie 'V' where that woman takes off her mask of human flesh to reveal her true, alien self.

Rick Astley

#23. He hung up the phone, and I did so gratefully, rubbing my ear a bit for good measure. I was pretty sure I'd just heard Rick Astley at eardrum-popping decibels, which wasn't anything I needed to ever experience again. Ever.

Chloe Neill

#24. I don't like flying. I'm a bit scared of it and don't enjoy the whole experience.

Rick Astley

#25. The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself

Thea Astley

#26. Astley comes to my side. "Are you well?" "No," I tell him, voice hoarse. "I am not well. I am broken inside. I am broken almost all-the-way deep, and I don't know ... I don't know if I can ever be unbroken, let alone well again".

Carrie Jones

#27. Working as a teaboy may have helped my confidence, but not everyone else was so pleased. I could never remember who had milk or how many sugars, and I had an unusual talent for spilling tea on the recording console.

Rick Astley

#28. When our daughter was born, a light went on for me - there was more to life than what I was doing. It felt like being famous for being a paint salesman. It wasn't the dream I was sold on. I'd had enough of it.

Rick Astley

#29. Back in the '80s, I was known for being reclusive, often shying away from media attention.

Rick Astley

#30. In the collecting of evidence upon any medical subject, there are but three sources from which we can hope to obtain it: viz. from observation of the living subject; from examination of the dead; and from experiments upon living animals.

Astley Cooper

#31. My dad loved Scotland, so we would pile into his caravan and head for the Highlands, to Fort William and Loch Ness. It was such an adventure - my siblings and I were allowed to roam and explore the local beaches. We loved the freedom of those trips.

Rick Astley

#32. I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.

Rick Astley

#33. I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.

Rick Astley

#34. I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a journey. Drives are an adventure because I don't plan them too carefully. I take detours depending on how I feel and usually stop and stay at places I like the look of.

Rick Astley

#35. It's really weird seeing someone impersonating you. But at the same time, Vic Reeves' impersonation of me is one of the highlights of my life.

Rick Astley

#36. Zara. We all need to rescue and we all need to be rescued.

Carrie Jones

#37. I don't trust politicians. I think that by the time they've made it, with the concessions they've had to make in that position, I don't believe they still have the beliefs they had at the root.

Rick Astley

#38. Don't expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: she's not the best singer in the world, but she's got where she has through hard work.

Rick Astley

#39. In the performance of our duty one feeling should direct us; the case we should consider as our own, and we should ask ourselves, whether, placed under similar circumstances, we should choose to submit to the pain and danger we are about to inflict.

Astley Cooper

#40. When I was still at school, I'd help Dad at the concrete yard he had prior to the garden centre. I was doing things there, like driving the tractors and forklifts, that most kids my age couldn't.

Rick Astley

#41. There's some songs you can cover, and I've covered and butchered a few, but you can't do them all.

Rick Astley

#42. I want you to want me because you want me, not because of grief, not because he is not here. I want you to love me for me. I want you to kiss me first and not because you need me to help you, but because you need to kiss me.

Carrie Jones

#43. I'm a person who tries not to have regrets.

Rick Astley

#44. I'd had my time in the charts and made loads of money. I was no longer hungry for success.

Rick Astley

#45. I feel sorry for Rick Astley, one day he is going to die and nobody will know about it for weeks because nobody will want to click the link.

Ade Bozzay

#46. Fame is not just about being able to get out of a limo in Leicester Square, it's about trying to get into your house when there are eight photographers outside. When you think about being famous, you don't think about all that stuff. You think about the glamour.

Rick Astley

#47. Maybe," he says slowly, as if each word is an effort, "she took advantage of me.

Carrie Jones

#48. I like everything in this iPhone, iPod world where you can do everything all the time. Back in my time, you bought a vinyl record when you were a kid and took it home, and it took a bit of effort to actually get it out of the thing and not scratch it.

Rick Astley

#49. I knew that Kitty and I felt just the same- only, of course, about different things. I should have remembered this, later.

Sarah Waters

#50. 'Never Gonna Give You Up' in 1987 was a huge international hit followed by several more, and while I appreciated how lucky I was, it catapulted me into a completely new world and simply took over my life.

Rick Astley

#51. I am honoured that my fans worked so hard to help me win Best Act Ever at the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards.

Rick Astley

#52. My success set me up for life, and it meant that I could retire from the music industry at 27 to spend time with my newborn daughter and my wife. My time away from the spotlight allowed me to rediscover my love for music, and I'm doing it for me now and no one else.

Rick Astley

#53. I must admit, the constant invasion of privacy was becoming a real concern. I've been asked for autographs while I've been doing laps in the pool and even in the toilet!

Rick Astley

#54. As a kid, I saw those ticker-tape parades in the movies, and I was really chuffed to be in one.

Rick Astley