Chesney Hawkes

“That's the thing about ice skating, you can just fall awkwardly like that.”

“My kids are the most important thing in my life.”

“It's when you think too much is when it all goes wrong.”

“I don't have anything against reality TV.”

“I like being out of the limelight.”

“A friend of mine, Thomas Jules, who was the lead singer of Rudimental, is an amazing DJ, so I've got him to come down and give me some tips.”

“Originally a promoter came and asked if I fancied doing a few student gigs. I was a little nervous. I thought they wouldn't know who I was and, worse still, not care. The first gig was in Lincoln. It sold out. I had knickers thrown on stage and people were chanting my name. I can't remember having a reaction like that - even in '91.”

“When Dad heard 'The One and Only,' he said: 'That's a smash.' Dad played the demo through the speakers at Abbey Road, where we were recording. I was a huge Nik Kershaw fan and was desperate to meet him, but everyone else hated the song.”

“My day job is that I write songs for other artists and if I'm not on the road I'm in my studio.”

“It feels like I've been dancing for years.”

“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.”

“I ripped all the cartilage out of my hip in a water ski jumping accident. I am a bit accident prone.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I absolutely love sushi.”

“By the time I was 17, I was in a band, writing songs and playing solo piano at weekends, in pubs or at weddings.”

“My dad was lead singer of the Tremeloes and he gave me advice.”

“I'm sure I was a cocky git.”