A biography for Chris de Burghhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm not a great meat eater - I eat it twice a week. But I can't stand fish - my mother says it's because I got a fish bone stuck in my throat when I was little.”
“Vanity is not high on my list of priorities.”
“There wasn't a lot of physical tenderness with my parents. There was plenty of love but we weren't into the hugging thing, which now I've totally reversed with my family to the point where it probably drives them crazy.”
“We are not politically naive.”
“I'm not a big consumer at all. I'm very happy with enough.”
“I remember talking to an architect and he said 'I am making so much money I don't know what to do' - I am in a business where you don't have an idea from one end of the year to the next how what you are going to earn and it is not like a salary that you can guarantee.”
“It's critically important to have family around me, and some of my happiest moments are when I'm just with my family.”
“I made loads of English and Irish friends at university and all they wanted to do was have a good time.”
“When I left university, I didn't want to jump into anything right away. Music certainly wasn't a burning ambition.”
“I've been to Australia, Russia and many of places I wanted to see as a child. But I've never visited India. I've had many invitations to play there but it hasn't worked out. People say it's beautiful, but I think I'd react badly to the poverty.”
“I studied French and English literature because I liked it.”
“I am much loved.”
“People just love stories.”
“I remember years ago hearing a top band talking about a song of theirs that was a monster hit and they were really dissing it, saying that they hoped they'd never have to play it again. I thought: 'That's not right. If people love a song, play it.'”
“You get pigeonholed. It's a kind of safety device for people who don't really want to look any further outside of the box, but I'm actually impregnable as far as what people say about me.”
“I think that every songwriter would give their right arm to come up with a standard that is going to be played long after they're dead.”
“I know journalists like to think that they are read by people like me, but I don't read them.”
“I went to Bethlehem in Christmas 2015 to do a television show for German TV and we filmed in the Church of the Nativity, literally above the place where Christ was born.”
“When you're a solo artist and you're not doing well, it can be pretty tough. So when success does come, it feels like you've earned it.”