Top 110 Quotes & Sayings by Craig David - Page 2

I am not competing to be an athlete. I make music.

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

I've done a couple of tunes with Kaytranada. 'Got It Good' has had such a great response.

'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.

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.

I'm an only child, so I got spoilt a lot. Which was a good thing.

I played 'Rewind' so many times in the club to see which parts were working, see how the crowd reacted to it.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Life is all about how things rough up against you and how you see them and the vantage point you have from them.

'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.

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.

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

It amazes me how quickly you can earn money.

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

There's nothing that I own that really makes me as happy as knowing that the people around me are all good.

We need to stop thinking the grass is greener on the other side and be happy with the love we have.

You find your personality real quick in school.

Me and guitar music is so entwined.

That's the beauty with music in the digital age: you're always one follow away from experiencing something new.

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

I've realised that as long as the youth has the ability to use social media, and their voice is there, people can actually cut through the nonsense and see what's really going on.

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.

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.

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 am only as good as my last song. Hits are a pension, but I don't want to rest on those songs. I want to have a future.

I have enough rings to cover both hands, but that is crass. There is a fine line between looking nice and looking over. Sometimes, I look at myself and say, 'Craig, that is over.' You have to be careful.

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's lovely to feel part of a community.

Psychologically, when you've been overweight, you want to achieve the polar opposite.

When I got to the second album, there was an expectation, because we'd sold nearly seven million albums on the first record, that this would do eight or nine.

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.

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

I love all my albums... I use the metaphor they're like my children: some do better than others, but you love them all equally.

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

It is cool to be gay, but I am not.

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.

The Bridge had a lot of long, soft profiles about the administration, .. In contrast, BU Today has shorter, hard pieces - more consistent with online journalism - which people can read every morning when they log on.

Once you've been overweight you never want to be overweight again, so you keep going, keep going, like for any addiction. Health can be an addiction, it doesn't have to be drugs or alcohol.

I still love the music and it's still plays a part in what I do but I never 'turned my back' on garage. I was always doing R&B with, say, Walking Away. It's wonderful that I was classed as the king of 2-step and a pioneer, but it's had its turn, I think.

I'm walking away from the Troubles in my Life.

I've realised that as long as the youth has the ability to use social media and their voice is there, people can actually cut through the nonsense and see what's really going on. People are live streaming from the ground, so everyone's starting to become more aware. When you pull back from this playground of duality, where someone is right and someone is wrong, you recognise that this is the way things have played out for years and years. And as long as the youth culture can see the madness that's going on in the world, there will eventually be a revolution.

Psychologically, when you've been overweight you want to achieve the polar opposite.

I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into graphic design and art. I decided to be a little bit of an artist on my face.

For any healthy relationship to work you have to be able have that time to spend with your friends. And to have a healthy relationship with your friends - and to be honest, if they "know you", pardon the pun, then they'll understand that you need to spend time with your partner. If people are pulling at you from both sides then maybe there's something a little off balance within the relationship. But it also depends on how you are as a person. You need to set the guidelines quite clearly, and say "I need my friends im my life. I got with you, but my friends are part of me also".

It's annoying when people do that so-called comedians impression of me when it's stupid nonsense.