Craig David Quotes

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Craig David

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 5, 1981

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.'

Craig David

I grew up in Southampton. My mum was a shop assistant; my dad was a carpenter. They broke up when I was eight.

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

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Don't take social media seriously. Don't buy into the hype.

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

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I like buying people little things, not flooding them with money, trying to win them.

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

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

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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.

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My songs are a time stamp for a lot of people's lives.

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'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.

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

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I see some artists who disown songs they love when they don't chart well. Would you do that to your children? Trust me, children ain't gonna do all the right things, so are you gonna disown them or embrace them and say, 'No, you're still my child. You didn't go out and do the right thing, but I'll still love you in the same way?'

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

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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.

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If you're in a good relationship, you should be able to say to your girlfriend, 'That girl walking down the street is great.'

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

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

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You find your personality real quick in school.

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I bought a dodgy gold ring off a guy in Southampton. He told me to check it was real gold by heating it up with a lighter and pressing it against my skin, because real gold doesn't burn. I still have the scar on my left hand.

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