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My mum made the best roasts.

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.

I was devastated by Gene Wilder's death.

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

I let the music do the talking, and people are still getting feelings from my songs.

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

What I dislike about going to the club is if you're not behind that red rope, you feel you're missing something special going on.

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

I grew up on dancehall music, and it holds a strong place in my heart.

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

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.

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

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.

By fusing R&B with a U.K. garage sound, you can create energy. 'Fill Me In' showed me that.

Everything around me is surreal. I get picked up in cars and go to celebrity bashes, and I get sponsorship on clothes, and it's great, and I really enjoy it. But you should remember where it all started: the music. That's the key.

As much as money is important for security, for me, it is worth nothing without music.

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

I'm a music man.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I never let anyone know I was insecure about it - it was my own little thing - but I did have a problem being overweight. I always felt people were looking at me in a certain way as opposed to who I really was.

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

Getting my mum a house was a really great feeling.

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

It's like a god-given gift that I've actually been able to go out and sing my songs.

If I couldn't sing tomorrow, I'd still write songs cos I'm passionate about that.

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

I have admiration for beautiful women.

When I grew up, I was living on a council estate overlooking a car park for a good 16 years of my life.

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

If I live my life through nostalgia and what I did in the past and expect to be the new kid people have just discovered again, then unfortunately, I'm creating my own demise.

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.

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

I could never have dreamed of picking up an Ivor Novello for anything... but for Songwriter Of The Year, it's just amazing.

I just keep it real, and I have written songs from my heart and performed them how they should be performed.

Kasabian are wicked. They've got the hit songs, but it's the presence in the performance and the attitude with it that I love.

What I like about Kasabian is that it's melody driven.

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

I'm a big fan of Usher, and I'd love for us to record together.

I've experienced everything any aspiring artist could ever want.

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.

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?'

Thankfully, my manager didn't talk me into 'Big Brother' or 'I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!'

I relish performing.

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.

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

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

I wanna have a positive impact and bring in artists on the come-up. It gets me hyped!

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

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.

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.

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

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

Something's wrong with all countries and all voting systems.

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.

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

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'm all about the melody.

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

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 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.'

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

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.

It's lovely to feel part of a community.

Before my first album 'Born To Do It,' I used to DJ.

For me, I have the highest amount of respect for DJs. There's a real skill set and ability to hold a crowd's attention for four to five hours, especially with an R&B/hip-hop and open-format music.

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

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

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

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

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.

'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.

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.

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