The World Motivation
People say 'Are you going to retire?' To me, that sort of equates with lying down and dying. When you're doing something you love to do, why would you stop?
“People say 'Are you going to retire?' To me, that sort of equates with lying down and dying. When you're doing something you love to do, why would you stop?”
— Rolf Harris · Dying
People say 'Are you going to retire?' To me, that sort of equates with lying down and dying. When you're doing something you love to do, why would you stop?
If I could go back in time, I'd return to when my parents were alive and appreciate them more than I did when I was growing up.
George Martin recorded a lot of my stuff before the Beatles, so I observed their meteoric rise.
For sheer creativity and totality of involvement, 'Rolf's Cartoon Club' with HTV in Bristol was an amazing show to work on, but I think the 'Rolf on Art' series, culminating in the painting of the Queen's portrait to celebrate her 80th birthday, just nudges into the favourite spot.
My brother dying changed me. I didn't realize how strong I was until I lost my brother.
I just didn't want a musical side of me being prosperous but I'm dying on the inside.
You could say heading is a dying art in football because a lot of games are now played tiki-taka on the grass.
In real life, it's war, and war's not entertainment. War is 'old men lying and young men dying' kind of deal. That's a saying; I didn't make that up.
Every day, it was the same: school, homework, farm work, training. Getting hurt or dying might've been better than the life I was living.
I was always different from all the other kids, and I was doing things that nobody else did or seemed to have any interest in.