Quotes from Craig David

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

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.

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.

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.

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?'

Take anything seriously in life, and you set yourself up for peril - trust 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.

I'm all about the melody.

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

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 always find that, when it comes to writing songs, if the melody and the chords are working, we're 90 per cent there.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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