23 Quotes by Jimmy Somerville

It has to start from the playground and parents teaching kids that diversity is what makes us so wonderful.

I think there's a lot of honesty in that track. 'Smalltown Boy' was about leaving Glasgow but it was also about the people I had come to meet on my journey, especially when I was squatting in London.

I'm Scottish and I was born there and but in my heart I'm a Londoner.

Glasgow is a city, but it's one with a small-town mentality.

I had good parents. My mother had morals and standards and she brought us up to be good kids - some of the families around were just laws unto themselves, it was really tribal.

Now that I'm older, I understand that it's up to the individual to decide who they are or what they are.

I believe now that love is letting people in. Love is bigger than all of us.

So many people have to struggle for years, very few bands get success with their first record, but I was instantly successful and famous on a very large scale, which was scary.

For someone who doesn't live there, when I go back to Scotland it's very weird for me.