“What I’ve learned is that if you stay focused and believe and actually walk the walk, anything is possible.”
― Craig David
“I have admiration for beautiful women.”
― Craig David
“Jessica Alba’s very beautiful; so is Sienna Miller.”
― Craig David
“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.”
― Craig David
“Writing for others is great cos you can tailor it for them.”
― Craig David
“I see some artists who disown songs they love when they don’t chart well. Would you do that to your children? Trust me, children ain’t gonna do all the right things, so are you gonna disown them or embrace them and say, ‘No, you’re still my child. You didn’t go out and do the right thing, but I’ll still love you in the same way?’”
― Craig David
“I’m grateful for what I have and the people around me.”
― Craig David
“Failure and success are part of the same seed. If you don’t embrace your failure, you never really know what success is.”
― Craig David
“When you start to ascertain a physique, you run that thing where you don’t want to lose it. It catches you; it’s like a hook.”
― Craig David
“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.”
― Craig David
“It amazes me how quickly you can earn money.”
― Craig David
“My mum made the best roasts.”
― Craig David
“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.”
― Craig David
“I was devastated by Gene Wilder’s death.”
― Craig David
“My songs are a time stamp for a lot of people’s lives.”
― Craig David
“I let the music do the talking, and people are still getting feelings from my songs.”
― Craig David
“I always felt like I had stability, doing things with my dad and living with my mum.”
― Craig David
“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.”
― Craig David
“We can all accept criticism of creative work, but to be publicly ridiculed for it is incredibly difficult to deal with.”
― Craig David
“I grew up on dancehall music, and it holds a strong place in my heart.”
― Craig David
“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.”
― Craig David
“I grew up in Southampton. My mum was a shop assistant; my dad was a carpenter. They broke up when I was eight.”
― Craig David
“My grandmother and my mother raised me, but my dad made a conscious effort to be in my life – every weekend he would take me out.”
― Craig David
“The council estate I grew up on wasn’t too bad.”
― Craig David
“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.”
― Craig David
“By fusing R&B with a U.K. garage sound, you can create energy. ‘Fill Me In’ showed me that.”
― Craig David
“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.”
― Craig David
“As much as money is important for security, for me, it is worth nothing without music.”
― Craig David
“More than meeting people and going out with girls, I’m focused on my music.”
― Craig David
“I’m a music man.”
― Craig David
“You know a date’s gone really well when she’s happy with nothing fancier than a Big Mac and fries!”
― Craig David
“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.”
― Craig David
“If you’re in a good relationship, you should be able to say to your girlfriend, ‘That girl walking down the street is great.’”
― Craig David
“Be yourself. If you’re not yourself, who are you? But take advice; listen to people. If you’re not listening, you’re lost. You’re a sheep among wolves.”
― Craig David
“I never let anyone know I was insecure about it – it was my own little thing – but I did have a problem being overweight. I always felt people were looking at me in a certain way as opposed to who I really was.”
― Craig David
“I like buying people little things, not flooding them with money, trying to win them.”
― Craig David
“Getting my mum a house was a really great feeling.”
― Craig David
“I’d love to reach the pinnacle where you just can’t wait to get the new album by Craig David.”
― Craig David
“It’s like a god-given gift that I’ve actually been able to go out and sing my songs.”
― Craig David
“If I couldn’t sing tomorrow, I’d still write songs cos I’m passionate about that.”
― Craig David
“Certain key words, like, ‘break it down,’ ‘this is how we do it’ – they’ll always end up on my tracks.”
― Craig David
“When I grew up, I was living on a council estate overlooking a car park for a good 16 years of my life.”
― Craig David
“We tend to always want to obtain something new and something more, and we never really enjoy what we have.”
― Craig David
“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.”
― Craig David
“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.”
― Craig David
“I could never have dreamed of picking up an Ivor Novello for anything… but for Songwriter Of The Year, it’s just amazing.”
― Craig David
“I just keep it real, and I have written songs from my heart and performed them how they should be performed.”
― Craig David
“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.”
― Craig David
“What I like about Kasabian is that it’s melody driven.”
― Craig David
“I love songs, so when you’re song-based, it doesn’t matter which way the production leans.”
― Craig David
“I’m a big fan of Usher, and I’d love for us to record together.”
― Craig David
“I’ve experienced everything any aspiring artist could ever want.”
― Craig David
“Don’t take social media seriously. Don’t buy into the hype.”
― Craig David
“Take anything seriously in life, and you set yourself up for peril – trust me.”
― Craig David
“Thankfully, my manager didn’t talk me into ‘Big Brother’ or ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!’”
― Craig David
“I relish performing.”
― Craig David
“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.”
― Craig David
“With every person you meet, there is a new and exciting experience to be had.”
― Craig David
“I wanna have a positive impact and bring in artists on the come-up. It gets me hyped!”
― Craig David
“I think I’d be a very good dad, and I think I’d have a lot of wisdom to share.”
― Craig David
“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.”
― Craig David
“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.”
― Craig David
“I do about two hours working out in the morning with my trainer. It’s like brushing my teeth.”
― Craig David
“Psychologically, when you’ve been overweight, you want to achieve the polar opposite.”
― Craig David
“Something’s wrong with all countries and all voting systems.”
― Craig David
“We need to stop thinking the grass is greener on the other side and be happy with the love we have.”
― Craig David
“You find your personality real quick in school.”
― Craig David
“I am not competing to be an athlete. I make music.”
― Craig David
“When I go on stage, there’s no way I can do the kind of show I do and not be fit for it. I can’t. I want to give everything.”
― Craig David
“I’m all about the melody.”
― Craig David
“In the course of my career, which has been an incredible rollercoaster ride, I look at the journey and think it’s been immense.”
― Craig David
“Let me create great music, go in the studio, and possibly become a memory and a time stamp in people’s lives – and just give the best performances, because I know that’s all that really matters.”
― Craig David
“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.’”
― Craig David
“Life is all about how things rough up against you and how you see them and the vantage point you have from them.”
― Craig David
“It’s lovely to feel part of a community.”
― Craig David
“Before my first album ‘Born To Do It,’ I used to DJ.”
― Craig David
“That’s the beauty with music in the digital age: you’re always one follow away from experiencing something new.”
― Craig David
“There’s nothing that I own that really makes me as happy as knowing that the people around me are all good.”
― Craig David
“For any healthy relationship to work, you have to be able have that time to spend with your friends.”
― Craig David
“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.”
― Craig David
“’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.”
― Craig David
“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.”
― Craig David
“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.”
― Craig David
“I’ve done a couple of tunes with Kaytranada. ‘Got It Good’ has had such a great response.”
― Craig David
“I have enough rings to cover both hands, but that is crass. There is a fine line between looking nice and looking over. Sometimes, I look at myself and say, ‘Craig, that is over.’ You have to be careful.”
― Craig David
“I’m an only child, so I got spoilt a lot. Which was a good thing.”
― Craig David
“It is cool to be gay, but I am not.”
― Craig David
“Me and guitar music is so entwined.”
― Craig David
“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.”
― Craig David
“I always find that, when it comes to writing songs, if the melody and the chords are working, we’re 90 per cent there.”
― Craig David
“When I write a song, I get the melody right first, and then hopefully I can back it up with a lyric that has to respect the melody.”
― Craig David
“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.”
― Craig David
“I aspired to playing at Glastonbury, not just the Camden Palais.”
― Craig David
“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.”
― Craig David
“When I was 16, I didn’t really know what intuition was as a word, even. It’s one of those things you experience, but you don’t really know what it is.”
― Craig David
“I love all my albums… I use the metaphor they’re like my children: some do better than others, but you love them all equally.”
― Craig David
“’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.”
― Craig David
“You have to have those times when your hunger and drive is in a different place because you’re under pressure to have success.”
― Craig David
“It does feel that TS5 gave me such a new lease of life.”
― Craig David
“I played ‘Rewind’ so many times in the club to see which parts were working, see how the crowd reacted to it.”
― Craig David
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