Craig David

“You find your personality real quick in school.”

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

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

“My mum made the best roasts.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Certain key words, like, 'break it down,' 'this is how we do it' - they'll always end up on my tracks.”

“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.”

“It amazes me how quickly you can earn money.”

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

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

“I'm grateful for what I have and the people around me.”

“Writing for others is great cos you can tailor it for them.”

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

“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.”

“Jessica Alba's very beautiful; so is Sienna Miller.”

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

“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.”

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