Top 70 Craig David Quotes

I think I’d be a very good dad, and I think I’d have a lot of wisdom to share.

I aspired to playing at Glastonbury, not just the Camden Palais.

I have admiration for beautiful women.

I feel, in the sense that if you’re heterosexual, if you’re bisexual, if you’re gay, if you’re a lesbian, if you’re transgender, whatever the vibe is, that’s what you represent. I’ve always found it quite strange that we always like to try and define people and say this is how it is, and this is how it should be.

I let the music do the talking, and people are still getting feelings from my songs.

I’m not angry about ‘Bo’ Selecta!’ I was flattered at first and even appeared on his show, but he just went on to become more vicious, knocking down everything I did.

I am only as good as my last song. Hits are a pension, but I don’t want to rest on those songs. I want to have a future.

I’ve done a couple of tunes with Kaytranada. ‘Got It Good’ has had such a great response.

It’s like a god-given gift that I’ve actually been able to go out and sing my songs.

I was devastated by Gene Wilder’s death.

Writing for others is great cos you can tailor it for them.

I do about two hours working out in the morning with my trainer. It’s like brushing my teeth.

Kasabian are wicked. They’ve got the hit songs, but it’s the presence in the performance and the attitude with it that I love.

For me, I have the highest amount of respect for DJs. There’s a real skill set and ability to hold a crowd’s attention for four to five hours, especially with an R&B/hip-hop and open-format music.

There’s nothing that I own that really makes me as happy as knowing that the people around me are all good.

What I like about Kasabian is that it’s melody driven.

I relish performing.

We need to stop thinking the grass is greener on the other side and be happy with the love we have.

I don’t know if, in a previous life, I was, like, the embodiment of a guitar, because any time someone plays a guitar with the licks, I just resonate to it.

In the course of my career, which has been an incredible rollercoaster ride, I look at the journey and think it’s been immense.

That whole ‘Bo’ Selecta!’ thing was damaging. I played along with it; I said it was cool, I can take a joke, roll with it, so I went on the show. But it was killing me.

Jessica Alba’s very beautiful; so is Sienna Miller.

‘Fill Me In’ went to number one at the same time Destiny’s Child released ‘Say My Name.’ Having a number one over Destiny’s Child at their peak was just madness to me.

Me and guitar music is so entwined.

By fusing R&B with a U.K. garage sound, you can create energy. ‘Fill Me In’ showed me that.

I’ve experienced everything any aspiring artist could ever want.

The council estate I grew up on wasn’t too bad.

‘Born to Do It’ took a kid out of a council estate and put my mum into a home of her own. It changed my whole family’s situation, and all from doing something that I loved.

When I started writing material, I realised you could take a ballad like Usher’s ‘Nice and Slow,’ sing the same melody over a garage track, and everyone would be up and dancing.

I’m grateful for what I have and the people around me.

Everything around me is surreal. I get picked up in cars and go to celebrity bashes, and I get sponsorship on clothes, and it’s great, and I really enjoy it. But you should remember where it all started: the music. That’s the key.

It is cool to be gay, but I am not.

I leave it very open because, at the end of the day, it’s one of those things where I shouldn’t have to reinforce and state, ‘No, I’m a heterosexual’ – because that’s all nonsense.

I’m a big fan of Usher, and I’d love for us to record together.

Life is all about how things rough up against you and how you see them and the vantage point you have from them.

As much as money is important for security, for me, it is worth nothing without music.

I wrote a song called ‘Four Times A Lady’ for Destiny’s Child, and it was perfect. But then I had to spin it back and change all the lyrics to a guy’s point of view cos I thought the track was too good to give away, heh heh. It’s Craig David now.

Certain key words, like, ‘break it down,’ ‘this is how we do it’ – they’ll always end up on my tracks.

Take anything seriously in life, and you set yourself up for peril – trust me.

You know a date’s gone really well when she’s happy with nothing fancier than a Big Mac and fries!

People use the ‘love’ word too early. When you’ve got that trust thing locked down, when you’ve lived together, and you know each other’s good and bad qualities inside out, at that moment, you know if you truly love someone.

For any healthy relationship to work, you have to be able have that time to spend with your friends.

That’s the beauty with music in the digital age: you’re always one follow away from experiencing something new.

When I got to the second album, there was an expectation, because we’d sold nearly seven million albums on the first record, that this would do eight or nine.

Psychologically, when you’ve been overweight, you want to achieve the polar opposite.

I grew up on dancehall music, and it holds a strong place in my heart.

I recognise life is like a magnet. Positive and negative are on the opposite sides of the magnet. You can try to cut the negative part off, but it’s still there. When you accept both of them, it’s like, ‘You know what? Don’t get too identified with success or too identified with failure – just be cool with them.’

I bought a dodgy gold ring off a guy in Southampton. He told me to check it was real gold by heating it up with a lighter and pressing it against my skin, because real gold doesn’t burn. I still have the scar on my left hand.

I’m a music man.

We tend to always want to obtain something new and something more, and we never really enjoy what we have.

I just keep it real, and I have written songs from my heart and performed them how they should be performed.

I grew up in Southampton. My mum was a shop assistant; my dad was a carpenter. They broke up when I was eight.

It amazes me how quickly you can earn money.

If I live my life through nostalgia and what I did in the past and expect to be the new kid people have just discovered again, then unfortunately, I’m creating my own demise.

When you first come out of the box, you want to play the 300-capacity place, then it’s 1,600-capacity, then it’s an arena – so, do you want to be in a stadium now? The ego keeps telling you that it’s not enough.

Getting my mum a house was a really great feeling.

My songs are a time stamp for a lot of people’s lives.

I’m an only child, so I got spoilt a lot. Which was a good thing.

It does feel that TS5 gave me such a new lease of life.

If I can be an advocate for people to get healthy, that’s good, and it’s not about just needing to go to the gym.

I’ve realised that as long as the youth has the ability to use social media, and their voice is there, people can actually cut through the nonsense and see what’s really going on.

Something’s wrong with all countries and all voting systems.

What I’ve learned is that if you stay focused and believe and actually walk the walk, anything is possible.

More than meeting people and going out with girls, I’m focused on my music.

My thing is, for artists who are having success, being given an award shouldn’t be the thing that defines you in the first place.

What I dislike about going to the club is if you’re not behind that red rope, you feel you’re missing something special going on.

When I grew up, I was living on a council estate overlooking a car park for a good 16 years of my life.

Failure and success are part of the same seed. If you don’t embrace your failure, you never really know what success is.

It’s lovely to feel part of a community.

If I couldn’t sing tomorrow, I’d still write songs cos I’m passionate about that.