74 Quotes by Tony Parsons

My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.

The thing to remember about Phuket is it's very beach-oriented and relaxed. The trendiest beach is Koh Sirey, which is full of groovy places to have a cocktail and watch the sun go down.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.

The thing I care about is my weight - I'm as fanatical about it as a member of Girls Aloud. I weigh myself every morning. I know exactly what I want to be - 82kg - and I try to stick to it.

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.