A biography for Craig Davidhasn’t been written yet.
“I recognise life is like a magnet. Positive and negative are on the opposite sides of the magnet. You can try to cut the negative part off, but it's still there. When you accept both of them, it's like, 'You know what? Don't get too identified with success or too identified with failure - just be cool with them.'”
“I am not competing to be an athlete. I make music.”
“I've experienced everything any aspiring artist could ever want.”
“'Fill Me In' went to number one at the same time Destiny's Child released 'Say My Name.' Having a number one over Destiny's Child at their peak was just madness to me.”
“I played 'Rewind' so many times in the club to see which parts were working, see how the crowd reacted to it.”
“I wanna have a positive impact and bring in artists on the come-up. It gets me hyped!”
“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.”
“That whole 'Bo' Selecta!' thing was damaging. I played along with it; I said it was cool, I can take a joke, roll with it, so I went on the show. But it was killing me.”
“I always find that, when it comes to writing songs, if the melody and the chords are working, we're 90 per cent there.”
“It is cool to be gay, but I am not.”
“I like buying people little things, not flooding them with money, trying to win them.”
“I'm an only child, so I got spoilt a lot. Which was a good thing.”
“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.”
“Something's wrong with all countries and all voting systems.”
“It's like a god-given gift that I've actually been able to go out and sing my songs.”
“Don't take social media seriously. Don't buy into the hype.”
“Take anything seriously in life, and you set yourself up for peril - trust me.”
“Let me create great music, go in the studio, and possibly become a memory and a time stamp in people's lives - and just give the best performances, because I know that's all that really matters.”
“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.”
“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.”