Craig David

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

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

“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.”

“I'm all about the melody.”

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

“Getting my mum a house was a really great feeling.”

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

“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.”

“'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.”

“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.”

“When you start to ascertain a physique, you run that thing where you don't want to lose it. It catches you; it's like a hook.”

“I'd love to reach the pinnacle where you just can't wait to get the new album by Craig David.”

“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 love songs, so when you're song-based, it doesn't matter which way the production leans.”

“People use the 'love' word too early. When you've got that trust thing locked down, when you've lived together, and you know each other's good and bad qualities inside out, at that moment, you know if you truly love someone.”

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

“In the course of my career, which has been an incredible rollercoaster ride, I look at the journey and think it's been immense.”

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

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

“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.”