Craig David

Musician

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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 was devastated by Gene Wilder's death.

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.

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

I am not competing to be an athlete. I make music.

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.

Getting my mum a house was a really great feeling.

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

I always find that, when it comes to writing songs, if the melody and the chords are working, we're 90 per cent there.

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.

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

Me and guitar music is so entwined.

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.

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.

I relish performing.

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

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

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

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

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

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