Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Roger Hodgson

Right now I'm just trying to survive, I know I'm gonna get there, dead or alive.

I will go on shining, shining like brand new. I'll never look behind me, my troubles will be few.

Take the Long Way Home is a song that I wrote that's on two levels - on one level I'm talking about not wanting to go home to the wife, 'take the long way home' because she treats you like part of the furniture. But there's a deeper level to the song, too. I really believe we all want to find our true home, find that place in us where we feel at home, and to me, home is in the heart. When we’re in touch with our heart and we're living our life from our heart, then we do feel like we found our home.

So keep your chin up, boy, forget the pain. I know you'll make it, if you try again. There's no use in quitting, when the world is waiting for you.

So many creeps in Hollywood.

You can laugh at my behavior that will never bother me, say the devil is my savior, but I don't pay no heed.

Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal.

Take a look at my girlfriend, she's the only one I got. Not much of a girl friend, never seem to get a lot.

Now some they do and some they don't And some you just can't tell And some they will and some they won't With some it's just as well.

You are your own superstar, and only you can shape the movie that you make.

Give a Little Bit has a wonderful message and makes people light up and I get them to sing with me. It really has a message that is very eternal and is needed even more today than it was when I wrote it when I was 19.

Feel all you can, let your heart speak and guide you. Don't be afraid of the love deep inside you.

They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, Logical, oh responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical...

There was light born on the darkest day, but no-one wants to know, and no-one wants to Cry