Words matter. These are the best Chesney Hawkes Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I don’t have anything against reality TV.
I absolutely love sushi.
I have dabbled in management but I found it a little too all consuming.
By the time I was 17, I was in a band, writing songs and playing solo piano at weekends, in pubs or at weddings.
I’ve heard about Honey G and there’s always someone like that who gets through. It’s a little bit of politics involved in that with ‘The X Factor’ which I’m not a big fan of but at the end of the day it’s a TV show.
I’ve done panto down the years, I love that. So never say never for anything.
I’m working on an Americana-style album because I live in L.A. now.
I’m sure I was a cocky git.
It really was… my life was not my own, put it that way. It was fun, I was only 19 at the time but it was crazy, it was really, really crazy and people camped outside my parents’ house and it was a nutty time, really crazy and I’m glad I don’t have that right now.
Before I knew it, we were No. 1 all over Europe and in the U.S. Top 10. We were living the dream, girls camped outside the house and everything.
It feels like I’ve been dancing for years.
I’m actually enjoying the touring life, although the worst part is being away from my three young children.
Seriously, I lived in America for a while, I’ve been in lots of different bands, I write songs for all sorts of different artists.
When I first released ‘The One And Only’ nobody knew it was going to be so big. I just thought, ‘Oh, this is what happens when you release a record? Brilliant! Let’s release another.’
I am gutted not to be taking part in ‘Dancing on Ice.’ I was having a brilliant time and couldn’t wait to finally be skating live on national TV!
When I was 16 I told my dad I wanted to be a pop star. He told me, ‘I’ll give you until the end of the summer. If you’re not earning money by then, you’re going back to school.’
My income started to dry up a couple of years after I had the big success with ‘The One and Only.’
I bought everyone in my family a car, I bought my mum a convertible Mercedes. I bought a studio at a ridiculous cost – just insane.
In fact one of the main reasons I head out to Los Angeles quite a bit is because they have the most amazing sushi bar in the world.
‘The One and Only’? Down the years I’ve had a slight love/hate relationship with it, but I can’t not love playing it.
In hindsight I might have chosen a different path and everything but I still make music, I have a core following that wait for every new album and it’s given me the career I have now.
My day job is that I write songs for other artists and if I’m not on the road I’m in my studio.
I’ve worked with the company – James Dean Events – on several occasions and their festivals have always been really successful and well run. I’ve even got to know the people that own the land. It’s always a really warm crowd and a real community spirit.
Over the years I’ve worked in everything from R&B, pop, country to rock ‘n’ roll to heavy rock, alternative… if there’s one thing that my manager tells me off for, it’s that I am a little too eclectic, that I have trouble focusing.
I like posing in cars, with my shades on. That’s what cars are for. They’re not to get you from A to B. They’re to pose in.
I still get knickers thrown on stage, but not as much as they used to. In fact, I get bloke’s boxer shorts thrown on and someone rolled a coconut on stage the other night.
Well I do like to give myself a challenge.
I have to say that talk of me living as a tramp at one point is completely false and I think that’s been added to my entry in Wikipedia, but I have been asked about that quite a few times.
People have so many preconceptions about me. I always knew it was going to be an uphill battle.
I’ve never really been that into cars. Maybe I just thought that’s what pop stars do. They buy flash cars. I was just playing it up a bit, being flash.
It’s when you think too much is when it all goes wrong.
I enjoy doing my gigs and I keep my hand in by putting records out now and again. You can’t really get over the buzz of playing live though.
My kids are the most important thing in my life.
