Top 26 Quotes & Sayings by Roddy Llewellyn

I'm terrified about the world food shortages. Vegetables could quite easily become tomorrow's currency.

I have very fond memories of Basil's Bar. It was an extraordinary place. You would go for a drink and it would be empty except for the bar bore, which was David Bowie.

It has always been an ambition of mine to make a record. I'm lucky to have a good team behind me. A very different story to the poor struggling artist. I'm very lucky.

In Princess Margaret I found a fine friend who could steady my restless nature and offer wise counsel.

Had I not been Roddy Llewellyn, I don't suppose anyone would have bothered to take an interest in my ambition to make a record.

The only thing I do for posterity is plant trees.

I think I would make a good father. I'd be a disciplinarian.

I was chased by the press and the doorbell used to keep ringing throughout the night.

There is no chance of my marrying Princess Margaret.

The last thing in the world I want to do is marry. I am too selfish, but I won't elaborate on that.

I'd rather be left to my own private life as much as be possible.

I was a late developer. For years, I was searching. I was a lost soul something your parents despair of and your peers deride. It isn't at all happy trying to find the right career.

Of course I took advantage of the publicity that surrounded my friendship with Princess Margaret.

I have never, ever read anything written about me.

Our weather patterns are mercurial. What you must remember about Great Britain is we have a uniquely temperate climate not shared by any other country in Europe. We can grow plants from every country in the world. The result is 90% of the plants in our gardens are from other parts of the world.

There's nothing like a roast parsnip, you don't want them too chewy though.

My childhood went on far too long.

When I'm really depressed because I have no money I buy a bottle of champagne with my last pennies - it's the best way to cheer yourself up.

I like things my own way. I like the window open at night, for instance, and I'm too intolerant to adjust to other people's habits.

I have always been fascinated by plants. I have always preferred plants to human beings. They give me an enormous amount of solace.

I am highly suspicious of food which takes a long time to be imported.

I don't try to copy anybody - I mean, I'm not trying to become another Sinatra. I merely sing the way I speak.

Schools should bring back the whip.

My private life is my own business.

Everybody in their life has a list of what they want to do: I'm very lucky indeed to do one thing on that list.

If we all had crystal balls, we'd all know which horse to back, wouldn't we?