Top 60 Craig David Quotes

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.

Don’t take social media seriously. Don’t buy into the hype.

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.

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

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

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 am not competing to be an athlete. I make 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.

My mum made the best roasts.

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

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.

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.

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

Thankfully, my manager didn’t talk me into ‘Big Brother‘ or ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!’

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.

I’d love to reach the pinnacle where you just can’t wait to get the new album by 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.

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

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 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.

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

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

Getting my mum a house was a really great feeling.

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

You have to have those times when your hunger and drive is in a different place because you’re under pressure to have success.

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

We can all accept criticism of creative work, but to be publicly ridiculed for it is incredibly difficult to deal with.

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

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

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

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

If you’re in a good relationship, you should be able to say to your girlfriend, ‘That girl walking down the street is great.’

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

I’m a music man.

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.

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

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

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.

I like buying people little things, not flooding them with money, trying to win them.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

With every person you meet, there is a new and exciting experience to be had.

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.

It amazes me how quickly you can earn money.

I was devastated by Gene Wilder‘s death.

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.

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 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.

Me and guitar music is so entwined.

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

I always felt like I had stability, doing things with my dad and living with my mum.

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.

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

‘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.

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